DoD establishes Joint Interagency to facilitate information sharing
NewsSeptember 15, 2015
SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. The Department of Defense with U.S. Strategic Command, Air Force Space Command, and the intelligence community will establish a Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSpOC) to be located at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The goal of the center will be to create unity of effort and facilitate information sharing across national security space enterprise.
The JICSpOC will have embedded capabilities allowing it to provide back up to the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC). Officials say that the JICSpOC will help ensure data fusion between Dod, interagency, allied, and commercial space units. Along with JSpOC, the new JICSpOC will support the Joint Functional Component Commander for Space, the Space Component Commander for USSTRATCOM.
Operational experimentation and testing will begin on October and completion of the initial series of experiments, including incorporation of the results into standard operating procedures is expected January 2017, according to DoD officials. It will also have the capability to develop, test, validate, and integrate space system tactics, techniques, and procedures that will support DoD and the Intelligence Community space operations.
Initial funding for the JICSpOC comes from the DoD and DNI stakeholders budget from this fiscal year 2015 totaling $16 million, but the budget for later years is still being determined. It will be located within existing facilities on Schriever AFB as preparations for the facility have already started.
