Space Operations

The commander, U.S. Strategic Command USSTRATCOM, established the Joint Functional Component Command for Space JFCC SPACE to optimize planning, execution, and force management of Department of Defense space operations. The commander, 14th Air Force, was designated as the commander, JFCC SPACE, to conduct space operations, exercise operational control of designated space and missile warning forces on behalf of the USSTRATCOM commander, and act as the Global Space Coordinating Authority. As coordinating authority, the commander of JFCC SPACE ensures unity of effort by developing, coordinating, and conducting operational-level space campaign planning and strategy development in support of U.S. Strategic Command and other combatant commands. Through the planning and execution of space control, support, and force enhancement operations, the JFCC SPACE commander produces effects for combatant commanders, such as providing positioning, navigation, and timing for military and civil use providing communications to remote locations beyond the line of sight of terrestrial communication systems and supporting battlespace awareness and characterization through space systems. The desired JFCC SPACE end state is unity of command and effort in the unimpeded delivery of full-spectrum joint space effects to supported commanders and the ability to deny the benefits of the space medium to adversaries for purposes hostile to the United States. In order to reach this desired end state, the United States must have robust, efficient, and effective space-based capabilities. Also, our operations centers the Joint Space Operations Center and the Air Operations Centers must work closely together to deliver the space effects that combatant commanders demand.