Efforts by the Air Force to normalize space as a war-fighting environment and provide situational awareness in that domain will require greater collaboration with other agencies across the government.
As the character and nature of warfare changes, the military is rethinking the way it fights. Its approach to space is no different. Connor explained that the Air Force continues to move forward with the Space Enterprise Vision\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a study examining how to make the Air Force more resilient in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Describing it as a guiding set of tenets and a framework for more strategic thinking on the contested environment of space, he said the vision crossed all areas, including strategy, acquisition and policy, to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Consistent with comments from Air Force senior leaders, we are moving forward with the normalization of space as a war-fighting domain, which means thinking differently about how we train space operators,” Conner said, adding that<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the force also needs to refine requirements for the purchasing process of systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be more agile in the space domain, Connor outlined an approach that involves taking advantage of authorities granted by Congress, such as so-called other transaction authorities to allow for faster and more flexibility in purchasing new systems, as well as delegation of authority. Regarding the latter, Connor noted how Congress granted delegation of authority for Air Force space programs, something the force is doing to get at delegating to the lowest levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As the Air Force is moving to normalize space as a war-fighting environment, collaboration with the intelligence community is critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":80,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[80,26],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3268],"class_list":["post-31382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satcom","category-special-reports"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"PFBUXKOVBVESRGAFEIDQXJWOSI","arc_canonical_url":"\/special-reports\/satcom\/2017\/03\/08\/how-the-air-force-and-ic-will-partner-in-space\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n