{"id":24398,"date":"2024-03-07T20:42:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T20:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2024\/03\/07\/inaugural-red-skies-exercise-boosts-orbital-warfare-readiness\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:17:41","slug":"inaugural-red-skies-exercise-boosts-orbital-warfare-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/space\/2024\/03\/07\/inaugural-red-skies-exercise-boosts-orbital-warfare-readiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural Red Skies exercise boosts orbital warfare readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defending the U.S. against an attack on its satellites may be another day on the job for Space Force Sgt. Robert Brown, but he admits to getting a little sweaty when guardians undertook their first orbital warfare simulation in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The four-day Red Skies exercise, hosted by Space Training and Readiness Command\u2019s 392nd Combat Training Squadron, intended to flex the muscles of Delta 9 Guardians who are training to defend U.S. satellite systems that form the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2024\/03\/06\/space-force-reimagines-training-operations-as-conflicts-intensify\/\" target=\"_blank\">backbone of American military operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/space\/2024\/02\/27\/us-space-force-to-launch-more-integrated-units-to-boost-efficiency\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b9319187778z1-20151008135053-000-gq0c1gu8t1-0jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US Space Force to launch more integrated units to boost efficiency<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Lt. Gen. David Miller says the service is weeks away from announcing plans to expand the construct beyond its initial pilot phase.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur strategic competitors are preparing space capabilities to find and target and attack our terrestrial forces, right? We know they\u2019re planning and building to deny, degrade our space capabilities as well. So our nation\u2019s responding,\u201d Brig. Gen. Todd Moore, deputy commander of STARCOM, told Air Force Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though details are classified, more than three dozen guardians from Deltas 9, 2, 3, 7 and 11 worked together for the first time through a simulated exercise to maintain tactical command and control of several satellites while building awareness of what physical and digital threats might be lurking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNot all plans survive,\u201d Brown, a member of Delta 9, which focuses on orbital warfare, said of the exercise. \u201cOn-the-fly planning is essential for crews to understand how to get after and how to accomplish [the mission].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2022\/09\/22\/space-force-refining-range-needs-through-black-skies-training\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/black-skies.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Space Force refining range needs through \u2018Black Skies\u2019 training<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The service is planning a Red Skies exercise next summer focused on orbital warfare and a Blue Skies event in 2024 targeted at training cyber operators.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red Skies followed a series of electronic warfare-focused<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2022\/09\/22\/space-force-refining-range-needs-through-black-skies-training\/\"> Black Skies exercises<\/a>, which began in September 2022. A cyber warfare exercise, Blue Skies, is expected later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exercises also come as Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman seeks to boost the service\u2019s combat readiness through more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2023\/05\/10\/space-force-to-seek-industry-help-to-test-tech-train-guardians\/\">robust and realistic operational test and training infrastructure<\/a>, including by building live ranges and investing in mission-specific simulators, while accelerating the tempo and increasing the scope of exercises. The results of those exercises will shape the force\u2019s development and design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past, Saltzman said, readiness metrics reflected whether troops could operate military space systems unthreatened. That has changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt will no longer be sufficient to fight for space superiority against our pacing threat. We have provided space effects with impunity for decades. \u2026 These days are over,\u201d Saltzman said in a Feb. 13 keynote speech at the Air and Space Forces Association\u2019s Air Warfare Symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because it\u2019s rare for deltas to work together, crew integration and coordination between them during Red Skies was a top priority for Capt. DeShawna Moore, the 392nd CTS\u2019 lead exercise planner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy overall objective was seeing that play out, and seeing where the efficiency is to help direct where the training or where Red Skies goes next,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/space\/2023\/05\/10\/space-force-to-seek-industry-help-to-test-tech-train-guardians\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/27_c4isrnet_FINALart.png.png?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Space Force to seek industry help to test tech, train guardians<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">STARCOM will meet with industry in late June to discuss capability gaps and update companies on its plans to develop a space test and training range.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red Skies is one of several events that the Space Force will use as it builds toward running several simultaneous exercises in what 392nd CTS Commander Lt. 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