Military space operations

New IC, DoD Space Center May Take Over From JSPOC

The new Intelligence Community-military space operations center the military is creating may replace the long-established JSPOC, two top commanders said, but a lot has to happen first. The nascent JICSPOC — Joint, Interagency, & Coalition Space Operations Center — will start as an experiment before potentially becoming a backup to JSPOC and then one day, maybe, taking over from it.

JIPSOC is being created at the direction of Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work. Its objective: to improve the sharing of data between the IC and the military and to help counterrising Russian and Chinese threats to US satellites and space-based systems. By bringing together intelligence agencies and foreign allies alongside the military services, it will act as a “JSPOC on steroids,” said Lt. Gen. David Mann, the chief of Army Space & Missile Defense Command.