{"id":49213,"date":"2023-03-07T20:55:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/03\/07\/defense-budget-includes-plans-for-space-based-tracking-kendall-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:39:28","slug":"defense-budget-includes-plans-for-space-based-tracking-kendall-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2023\/03\/07\/defense-budget-includes-plans-for-space-based-tracking-kendall-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense budget includes plans for space-based tracking, Kendall says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s fiscal 2024 budget request includes a classified effort to integrate air and space sensors that can track moving targets, according to the Air Force\u2019s top civilian official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funding request, which the Biden administration is expected to submit to Congress this week, includes \u201cdesigns and plans\u201d for the software and communications backbone that will be needed to use both air and space sensors to track targets, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said during the Air and Space Force Association\u2019s Air Warfare Symposium in Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe details are classified, but with support from Congress, we should be able to move forward with a resilient suite of airborne and space-based sensors and the associated processing and data distribution needed to perform those functions,\u201d Kendall said at the Tuesday event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aircraft such as the E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system and the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2023\/03\/01\/air-force-advisers-study-use-of-satellites-for-tracking-moving-targets\/\" target=\"_blank\">traditionally perform this function for the department<\/a>. Meanwhile the intelligence community relies on spy satellites from the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency to surveil targets from space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2021\/02\/03\/the-space-force-is-considering-adopting-a-tactical-geoint-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\">Over the last few years<\/a>, the Air Force, the Space Force and the intelligence community have been developing plans to better integrate those capabilities, including new sensor capabilities. Former Chief of Space Operations Gen. 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