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4 Broader Issues
Pages 55-62

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... These include development of strategic analysis and vision, relationships with the external space community and finally, costs and risks. STRATEGIC ANALYSIS AND VISION Air Force Space Command and the JSpOC could benefit from a strategic analysis of space situational awareness-related activities, including algorithm and model development and upgrades as well as operations and personnel management.
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From page 56...
... Recommendation: The Air Force Space Command should further develop the vision for the future of the Joint Space Operations Center Mission System and the system of systems based on the 2010 National Space Policy. AFSPC CULTURE AND INTERACTION WITH THE COMMUNITY Beyond the improved hardware and software infrastructure support that the JSpOC Mission System (JMS)
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From page 57...
... Finding: The modelers and algorithm developers who support the JSpOC mission have developed an internal community that lacks sufficient two-way interaction with the larger research and user community. Recommendation: Joint Space Operations Center algorithm and model developers should fully communicate the results of their work and their development activities, such as in appropriate peer reviewed publications and conferences, so that users gain greater insight into and understanding of the underlying assumptions associated with catalog activities.
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From page 58...
... This expanded participation should be achieved by advocating for research initiatives and engaging members of the research community to serve as peer reviewers, and by appropriate sharing of data. • The JSpOC should provide a database containing a reasonable amount of sensor tracking data that would be available to the research community for the development and validation of new algorithms that support space situational awareness.
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From page 59...
... that allows for such things as replacement of obsolete computer hardware. If the Space Surveillance Network sensors are to be impacted by JMS changes, then additional funding will be required to allow them to remain compatible.
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... Smaller changes would of course be less costly. Careful selection by JMS of the legacy user interface/algorithm modifications incurred by proposed JMS changes could mitigate this expense.
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... Appendixes
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Key Terms

  • situational awareness
  • force space
  • space surveillance
  • national space
  • space policy

  • strategic analysis
  • space operations
  • space command
  • operations center
  • user community

  • joint space
  • surveillance network
  • space community
  • broader issues
  • jms changes

  • support space
  • premier organization
  • astrodynamics algorithms
  • moves forward
  • larger research

  • model development
  • afspc culture
  • awareness information
  • legacy user
  • afspc activities

  • additional funding
  • larger space
  • previous space
  • space weather
  • space defense


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