Space Warfighting Analysis

Space Warfighting Analysis is a research and development initiative within the Air Force's budget for the Space Force. The program aims to fund increased scope towards capability area analyses and integration, modeling, wargaming, and experimentation to create operational concepts and force design guidance for existing and emerging United States Space Force (USSF) missions. This includes identifying the integrated suite of operational capabilities that fulfills USSF imperatives to preserve the United States' freedom of action in space, enable Joint Force lethality and effectiveness, and provide the Service options for developing capabilities operating in, from, and to space. The program also focuses on organizing force design analyses into three areas: Multi-Domain Sensing, Spectrum Warfare, and Force Design Integration, which are aligned with USSF priorities.

The specific objectives of this program include developing authoritative force design recommendations for the USSF by conducting analyses in areas such as Multi-Domain Sensing, Spectrum Warfare, and Force Design Integration. This involves evaluating technologies, systems, and architectures for high-priority mission areas while providing analytic insight to inform or validate solutions to operational needs. Additionally, the program aims to define and inform future USSF mission requirements, capabilities/architectures, priorities, funding needs, and interface standards through its force design products. The program also includes necessary emergent/unanticipated civilian pay expenses required to manage and execute the force design mission assigned to the Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC) and/or deliver products for evolving weapon system capabilities. Furthermore, it is part of Budget Activity 4 (Advanced Component Development & Prototypes) as efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.