Navy's Needs in Space for Providing Future Capabilities (2005) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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focuses first on the significant leverage gained from satellite system performance supporting naval needs and then on the resulting naval satellite acquisition and operational efforts. Many "firsts" in space are a credit to earlier naval space research and development activities: first space communications used in operations -- Moon Bounce; 1An extended review of the Navy's history in space is presented in Gary Federici, Robert Hess, and Kent Pelot, 1997, From the Sea to the Stars: A History of U.S.
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space program and the formation of the National Reconnaissance Office) giving the Secretary of the Air Force the "Executive Agent" role in 1961;2 it was rescinded in 19703 but reinstated in 2003;4 · Dominant strategic nuclear priorities in DOD space programs, which continued to the end of the Cold War; · Large-scale, rapidly developing commercial space communications activity, beginning with the first commercial communications satellite (COMSAT)
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space program established; Secretary of the Air Force (again) given the DOD oversight role for space;6 and a panel report issued by the Center for Naval Analyses recommending renewed Navy response to space development;7 and · The appearance of recurrent themes of space warfare and space control (studied beginning in the late 1950s)
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In total, the Navy's space-related budget is allocated to the following: · Communications satellites (UFO, MUOS) , 49.8 percent; · Satellite communications terminals, 38.7 percent; · Naval Network and Space Operations Command, 5.2 percent; · Global Positioning System receivers and equipment, 2.8 percent; · Spectrum management and interference reduction, 1.5 percent; · Navy Technical Exploitation of National Capabilities Program and the Ground Moving Target Indication Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration, 1.1 percent; · Meteorology and oceanography (satellites and operations)
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NASA supports space science activities at NRL and at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, and the Air Force, through its GPS Joint Program Office, supports NRL to provide GPS clock-monitoring and orbit-calculation functions. CROSSCUTTING THEMES The Department of the Navy strategy and framework for transformation and implementation of the National Security Strategy is embodied in the Naval Operating Concept for Joint Operations, of which Sea Power 2113 is an integral capstone concept.
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Thus, top-down direction and support backed up by rigorous operations analysis across the Department of the Navy will be needed to integrate these elements with the space mission areas and related space programs to generate the desired Sea Power 21 capabilities. Recent Navy reorganizations, particularly in the Fleet Forces Command and in the offices of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfare Requirements and Programs, appear to be moving in the right direction to meet these needs, but updates to the Department of the Navy space policy,16 needed to provide overarching and cohesive guidance regarding space support, remain uncompleted.
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As a result of a 1994 Presidential Directive, all DOD and civilian environmental satellites are to transition their fielding and operation to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by 2010.1 NOAA is currently the lead acquisition authority for the national Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)
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The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has established a Space Superiority System Program Office, and the Defense Ad vanced Research Projects Agency is also involved in the development of new space control technologies and systems. The Navy built the Naval Space Surveil lance (NAVSPASUR)
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Chapter 5 then provides a view of the potential role for space capabilities supporting naval forces in the future and a vision of the Navy's engagement across the activities of NSS.
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