Space

Continuing to improve coordination and management of defense space activities; and

Improving the coordination and integration of DoD space activities with those of the Intelligence Community.

   Reorganization. The DoD's efforts to restructure the management of national security space activities have included the creation of three elements at the Departmental level:

The DUSD(S) to oversee DoD space activities, specifically policy, architectures, and acquisition programs;

The DoD Space Architect to develop integrated space mission architectures that will enable acquisition efficiencies and improve space support to military operations; and

The Joint Space Management Board (JSMB) to integrate Defense and Intelligence space activities under a senior guiding body.

   Their key functions are summarized in the table below.

   Current Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) space organizational relationships are depicted in the figure on the next page. The emphasis is on coordination of the many activities and responsibilities that space affects through its policy, architectural, technological and operational interfaces.

   Processes and Procedures. In addition to providing a DoD focal point for space matters, the consolidation of space responsibilities within OSD has facilitated the streamlining of the Department's space policy and acquisition decision-making processes:

The Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) structure has been augmented by a Space Overarching Integrated Product Team (OIPT). The OIPT reviews major defense space acquisition programs and makes recommendations to the DAB. Space program IPTs support the DAB and Space OIPT.

Acquisition reform initiatives are being applied to space acquisition activities.

While the Planning, Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) has not been changed, space subactivity codes are to be established in the OSD Budget Review System to improve the identification and tracking of space activities. This will both improve DoD resource management and provide Congress with greater visibility into programs' funding.

The Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) now reviews and validates military intelligence requirements, after which they are relayed to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) for aggregation with other intelligence requirements. This will ensure that military needs will be met by the development, acquisition, operation and use of both airborne and space-based reconnaissance systems.

Defense space program acquisition will continue via the Department's decentralized structure (per Title 10, U.S. Code). The Air Force will continue to acquire DoD multi-user space programs (unless another Service makes a better case to the Defense Acquisition Executive), and Service-unique programs will remain with their individual Services.

OSD Space Organizational Relationships

   In addition to the joint reviews conducted by the Deputy Secretary of Defense and the DCI, the JSMB now provides a forum for senior management to address defense and intelligence space policy, acquisition, architecture, funding, and related issues. The JSMB is co-chaired by the USD(A&T) and Deputy DCI. Its Executive Committee includes the co-chairs, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (VCJCS) and the Executive Director, Intelligence Community Affairs (ICA). Its full membership includes: the DoD Comptroller, Service Vice Chiefs and Marine Corps Assistant Commandant; Service Acquisition Executives (SAEs); ASD(C3I); DUSD(S); USCINCSPACE; Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation (DPA&E); Executive Director and Deputy Director for Science and Technology, CIA; Directors of National Security Agency (NSA), NRO, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Imagery Management Agency (NIMA); Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, DOS; and Deputy Director for Technology, NSA. Ex officio members include the DoD Space Architect, NRO's Director, Plans and Analysis and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).