Technology Initiatives in Support of Joint Warfighters - Current Initiatives

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command is continuously exploring ways to better meet its ever-growing mission demands. In the last Army Space Journal, I discussed how SMDC delivers Space, and near Space, capability to the Army and the joint warfighter. This article explores current initiatives that will improve support to missile tracking and testing and Space launch efforts at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site RTSU.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll USAKA support to the joint warfighter through use of near Space platforms to enhance situational awareness on the battlefield, modeling and simulation efforts to combine live testing elements where feasible with simulations, and Joint Tactical Ground Station JTAGS support to combatant commanders and through the establishment of an Interceptor Center of Excellence ICoE and a partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory.