USASMDC/ARSTRAT
FOREWORD Since I assumed command of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/ Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) in January 2017, I have been continually impressed by the breadth of our mission set, and the high caliber of our greatest asset our people. It is inspiring to work with all of you as we have progressed in supporting the six priorities I set out in last year s Commander s Vision and the Command Strategy. It is an honor and a privilege to lead this dynamic organization. Since we published my 2017 Commander s Vision, we have a new National Security Strategy, a new National Defense Strategy, a new Army Vision, and an updated U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Commander s Vision and Intent. My six priorities remain aligned with the new strategic guidance, positioning USASMDC/ARSTRAT to complement and support Commander, USSTRATCOM s priorities of providing strategic deterrence, delivering a decisive response, and equipping and training combat ready forces. Over the past year, we better aligned our organization to support the joint force: we established the Commander s Action Group to better synchronize strategic efforts across the command; our Cyber Mission System Fusion Cell (CMSFC) achieved initial operating capability (IOC) to protect key cyber terrain; the 2nd Space Battalion activated last October, enhancing our ability to provide combat-ready forces; we are making structural updates to our Mission Management Center; and we are moving 1st Space Brigade to Fort Carson. These changes better posture USASMDC/ARSTRAT to perform our mission, providing the Army, joint force, allies, and partners with unique capabilities to fight across multiple domains and through contested areas. Our mission remains unchanged. This document provides a refined Vision statement, updated Commander s Intent illustrating our progress within each of the six priorities, and an expanded Commander s Narrative. My Command Strategy signed in November 2017 and the draft Campaign Support Plan for FY18-25 remain current. The common link uniting this multifaceted and highly dispersed command remains our uncommon commitment to superiority in space, missile defense, and high altitude capabilities. We are united in safeguarding the security of the Nation and our allies, with a strong emphasis on continually synchronizing our efforts throughout the organization. USASMDC/ARSTRAT COMMANDER S VISION 1
STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT USASMDC/ARSTRAT COMMANDER S VISION Today s strategic environment can be summarized in one word competitive. The 2018 National Security Strategy describes the environment as one characterized by growing political, economic, and military competitions. The threat landscape is characterized by the reemergence of greatpower competition, destabilizing rogue regimes, non-state actors with increasingly sophisticated capabilities, and accelerating technological advances that are changing the character of war. These combined attributes form a dynamic, complex, and volatile environment where Army and joint forces must be capable and ready to win wars, and respond to crises below the threshold of war. The 2018 National Defense Strategy warns that technological advances such as hypersonics, autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology portend a future with different warfighting and escalation dynamics. The accessibility of commercial off-the-shelf technology means that state and non-state actors alike will rapidly adopt and adapt technology to reduce or eliminate our technological advantage. Over the past 50 years America enjoyed unchallenged preeminence in space and missile technology, providing the joint force unmatched operational advantage in speed, agility, and lethality. Today, our Nation s strategic competitors are actively developing space and counterspace capabilities to deny, disrupt, and degrade our space systems, eroding our advantage. They have fully embraced space as a warfighting domain, using recent conflicts in Ukraine and Syria to test and refine capabilities to challenge the U.S. in multiple domains. China and Russia continue to develop anti-access and area denial (A2/AD) capabilities intended to thwart the joint force s freedom of maneuver. China s increasingly capable and expanding ballistic missile program presents a significant threat to forces in the Pacific region, and Russia continues to develop long-range conventional missiles that threaten Europe. Both have hypersonic missile technology programs intended to overwhelm our defenses. North Korea s ballistic missile tests in 2017 revealed a technological leap with its first ICBM that can potentially reach the United States. Missile proliferation continues to be a concern as China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia continue to seek new sales of advanced missile systems with countries worldwide. These sales will lead to an increasingly complex missile defense environment. The current strategic setting is characterized by competition at various levels, from strategic to tactical, across all warfighting domains. It demands a joint force possessing speed, agility, and lethality, decisively operating at all levels and in all domains. USASMDC/ARSTRAT will enable current and future operations by providing the joint force with technological overmatch, and trained and ready warfighters, consistent with our distinct mission set. 2
COMMANDER S VISION MISSION USASMDC/ARSTRAT develops and provides current and future global space, missile defense, and high altitude capabilities to the Army, joint force, and our allies and partners, to enable multi-domain combat effects; enhance deterrence, assurance, and detection of strategic attacks; and protect the Nation. VISION One synchronized USASMDC/ARSTRAT team develops and provides leading-edge space, missile defense, and high altitude forces and capabilities for the warfighter and for the Army wherever and whenever required. COMMANDER S INTENT The joint force increasingly faces adversary capabilities that challenge its freedom of access to key regions and domains. These challenges threaten our homeland and broader American strategic efforts. USASMDC/ARSTRAT develops and provides current and future capabilities that deter, deny, and defeat these challenges to support the Nation s strategic ends. USASMDC/ARSTRAT COMMANDER S VISION 3
USASMDC/ARSTRAT A globally responsive command 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SMDC Headquarters (Technical Center and Future Warfare Center) SMDC Operations Headquarters (Future Warfare Center) 1st Space Brigade Headquarters 100th Missile Defense Brigade Headquarters Joint Tactical Ground Stations (1st Space Brigade) Wideband Satellite Communications Operations Centers (1st Space Brigade) Regional Satellite Communication Support Centers (HQ) Fort Greely, Alaska 8 Fort Drum, New York 13 Vandenberg Air Force Base, California 11 Fort Meade, Maryland 6 Fort Detrick, Maryland 6 Colorado Springs, Colorado 2 3 4 7 Huntsville, Alabama 1 Hawaii 6 7 Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado 11 Houston, Texas 9 Florida 7 4
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 49th Missile Defense Battalion and Senior Commander of Fort Greely Army Astronaut Detachment (HQ) Reagan Test Site (Tech Center) and Senior Commander of U.S. Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll 100th Missile Defense Brigade Detachment Army Space Support Team and ACSE (1st Space Brigade) IDT Security Detachment (100th Missile Defense Brigade) Missile Defense Batteries Forward-Based Mode Radar (100th Missile Defense Brigade) Korea 5 Germany 5 6 7 Turkey 14 Japan 5 14 Okinawa 6 Israel 14 CENTCOM 5 12 14 Kwajalein Atoll 10 Uniquely Organized, Geographically Well-Positioned, Regionally Aligned 5
COMMANDER S NARRA TIVE This Vision serves as a challenge for every Soldier, Civilian, and supporting Contractor. We will continue to progress as an organization along the six lines of effort that define the ways of our strategy. Each individual in this command ensures the means for which we are collectively responsible and accountable trained and ready space, missile defense, and high altitude forces and capabilities are provided to joint warfighters. I am proud of how well our forces and capabilities are synchronized with the requirements and demands of the Army and the joint force. Now is the time to take this synchronization to the next level. USASMDC/ARSTRA T COMMANDER S VISION Sun Tzu advises that, If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. Our potential adversaries also heed this advice. They have observed how U.S. Armed Forces build or regain land, air, and sea domain superiority to seize the initiative and win. Where we once maintained dominance in all warfighting domains, we now face competition and increased risk especially in space and cyber. However, where there is risk, there is also opportunity. The Multi- Domain Battle (MDB) concept presents an opportunity to regain our advantages. The USASMDC/ARSTRAT contribution to the Army s MDB concept is crucial. We have synchronized space support to operations down to the tactical level, and synchronized space control forces and capabilities with joint operations to enable space domain superiority. Our Force Tracking Mission Management Center provides situational awareness of ground forces that is imperative to land combat. Our global missile defense forces provide protected battlespace for air and sea forces, enabling them to build combat power in those domains along secure lines of communication. We are being outpaced by our adversaries. To maintain our technical advantage, we must increase speed and innovation as we synchronize our forces and capabilities. We must support initiatives such as the Rapid Capabilities Office and the Army Futures Command, especially its Cross-Functional Teams for Air and Missile Defense; Long Range Precision Fires; Network Command, Control, Communication, and Intelligence; and Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing. Our team must internalize and carry out this vision, to ensure our readiness to contribute the forces and capabilities that help our Nation prevail in current and future conflicts. 6
METHODS (Command Priorities and Lines of Effort): Protect Our Homeland: We focus our main effort on this priority, including Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD), missile warning, satellite communications (SATCOM), and space support to operations. The command s operational forces, and emerging doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities and policy (DOTMLPF-P) and institutional capabilities from the command s combat and materiel development functions are focused on protecting the homeland. Signs of Progress: Upgraded GMD Fire Control software Increased security measures at Fort Greely, Alaska Implemented the Warrior Reliability Program within the 100th Missile Defense Brigade Achieved first Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) kill of an ICBM-type target (FTG-15); Accomplished successful unannounced evaluations in the Missile Defense Element and Fire Direction Centers, the Joint Tactical Ground Stations (JTAGS), and the Wideband Satellite Operations Centers Provide Combat-Ready Forces and Capabilities: We implement Title 10 responsibilities as the Army s air and missile defense force modernization proponent and the Army Service Component Command to USSTRATCOM, tasked to provide trained and ready forces to the joint force. Signs of Progress: Enhanced Army space support to U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) and supporting U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) Multi-Domain Task Force development Relocating JTAGS to Italy Upgraded JTAGS equipment beginning in the PACOM AOR; Initial Qualification Trainer in place to support these upgrades Refined space brigade and GMD brigade force structure organization and operations plans Developed a denied, degraded, and disrupted space operational environment in which rotational training units operate at Combat Training Centers Opened a first-of-its-kind interactive training system that supports the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) program at Fort Gordon, Georgia U S A S M D C / A R S T R AT C O M M A N D E R S V I S I O N 7
METHODS (Command Priorities and Lines of Effort): USASMDC/ARSTRA T COMMANDER S VISION Plan and conduct synchronized global operations: We integrate forces and capabilities into multidomain campaigns to enable joint force operations in contested operational environments. Signs of Progress: Organized the campaign support plan around 4+1 adversary plans and directed global campaign plans Supported Global Thunder/Austere Challenge and Global Lightning/Pacific Sentry exercises to enhance theater coordination Increased wargame participation to enhance joint Multi-Domain Battle (MDB) integration Prepare or adopt leap-ahead concepts and technologies: We conduct research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E); combat and materiel development, wargaming and experimentation, and procurement and acquisition to contribute forces and space, high altitude, and missile defense capabilities to USSTRATCOM, and other joint and Army warfighters for current and future missions. Signs of Progress: Selected to lead Army s Cross Functional Team for Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Selected to lead all Army directed energy development efforts Conducted directed energy testing; recent testing in Germany as part of Joint Warfighting Assessment and counterunmanned aircraft system trials Selected to lead all Army small satellite development Deployed Kestrel Eye imaging microsatellite Leveraged commercial high altitude experimentation opportunities Preserve and account for the Nation s critical resources: We reduce risk by normalizing the policies, processes, and operational procedures that ensure freedom of action for multi-domain forces and capabilities, and appropriately managing the Nation s critical resources. We implement disciplined measures including active and passive defense, cyber security, and information assurance; planning, programming, budgeting, and execution; lifecycle management and sustainment for programs of record; and readiness reporting, advocacy, and strategic communications. Signs of Progress: Achieved CMSFC IOC to protect key cyber terrain Verified accountability for $94M of command property in FY17 Exceeded Army standard for Audit Readiness with pass rate of 89% Completed command inspections of operational brigades Prepared to execute FY18 NDAA increases for our major RDT&E programs in high energy laser and small satellite technology and funded a new program in multimission high energy laser research Briefed senior Army leadership during Space Day to increase awareness and advocacy. 8
Promote and foster a positive command climate: We establish, maintain, and normalize the policies and systems that ensure a healthy relationship between the command and its Soldiers, Civilians, and Families. Signs of Progress: Awarded the Partnership for Public Service Most Improved Sub-Agency organization in the federal government for 2017 Created the Civilian Advisory Group and the Military Advisory Group Published the Human Capital Strategic Plan Celebrated the command s 60th Anniversary with events in Huntsville and Colorado Springs Conducted town halls to increase employee engagement Initiated the Technical Center s personnel system transfer from AcqDemo to Lab Demo in 2019 Conducted the Civilian Workforce Mentoring Event to share perspectives on leadership and career advancement ENDSTATE: USASMDC/ARSTRAT is globally synchronized and functions with true unity of effort; the command develops and provides superior space, missile defense, and high altitude capabilities to the Army, joint force, and our allies and partners for current and future fights; command activities enhance deterrence, assurance, and detection of strategic attacks; command efforts continue to strengthen homeland defense. U S A S M D C / A R S T R AT C O M M A N D E R S V I S I O N 9
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