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Michael Guetlein said Wednesday at the annual Defense News Conference in Arlington, Virginia. \u201cI would say you\u2019re looking at probably the early 2030s for some of that capability to start coming online.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service has been working with the intelligence community to develop satellites that can perform the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=c4isrnet+gmti&#038;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS988US988&#038;oq=c4isrnet+gmti&#038;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgoIARAAGIAEGKIEMgoIAhAAGIAEGKIEMgoIAxAAGKIEGIkFMgoIBBAAGIAEGKIEMgoIBRAAGKIEGIkF0gEIMjA5OGowajeoAgCwAgA&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\">ground moving target indication, or GMTI,<\/a> mission from space. In fact, the Space Force cleared the program to enter formal development late last month, according to a report from Breaking Defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, efforts to use satellites for the air moving target indication, or AMTI, mission are more nascent. Guetlein told Defense News in an interview earlier this summer that as the Space Force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2023\/03\/07\/defense-budget-includes-plans-for-space-based-tracking-kendall-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">builds out its MTI architecture<\/a>, integrating the various sensors with new and existing command and control networks will likely be its biggest challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat requires us to now start thinking about artificial intelligence, it starts you thinking about machine learning, it starts you thinking about new communication pathways,\u201d he said. \u201cI now have to have processing on orbit on the sensor rather than processing on the ground. 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Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told Defense News in a recent interview that the Space Force\u2019s budget, which sits around $30 billion in FY25, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2024\/08\/27\/securing-us-space-assets-is-busting-the-air-force-budget-kendall-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">needs to double or triple<\/a> to meet the military\u2019s need for on-orbit support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With no increase of that magnitude in sight, the service is working to make sure it has its priorities in order, focusing on areas like readiness, satellite communications and improving the resilience of its systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are definitely sacrificing some because there\u2019s not enough resources to go around,\u201d he said. \u201cWe know we can\u2019t buy everything we need, so we are ruthlessly prioritizing all the kit that we\u2019re buying to make sure that it\u2019s the biggest bang for the buck, if you will, during times of crisis or conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service is looking for ways to take advantage of partnerships with international partners and commercial companies who are also spending on the capabilities the Space Force needs, Guetlein noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the past, DOD felt like we needed to own all of our own kit, operate all of our own kit. 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