The Strategic Master Plan is our 25-year
blueprint for fielding, operating and blending space capabilities into a fully
integrated Aerospace Force.
The Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)
Strategic Master Plan (SMP) is a long-term capstone planning document,
describing the space capabilities required to achieve our Vision for a fully
integrated Aerospace Force. This chapter summarizes the primary changes
from the 1998 edition. It also describes the relationship of the SMP to
other planning and programming documents and identifies various evolving
developments and on-going planning initiatives. The SMP is written as an
unclassified document with a separate classified annex to promote the widest
dissemination.
The SMP serves several purposes as
highlighted in Figure 1-1. First, it documents our
Vision “end state”, identifying the capabilities needed over the next 25 years,
with emphasis on the value to the combatant commander. It also lays out our
phased strategy for implementing the Vision, setting the appropriate focus areas
to obtain key mission improvements over time, while developing the
21st century aerospace warrior and infrastructure key to the success
of our Vision. The document summarizes the results of our Integrated Planning
Process (IPP) by providing a variety of “roadmaps” for implementing the plan. It
provides a link between planning, requirements, programming and budgeting by
identifying specific implementation actions. The SMP provides guidance to Air
Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Product Centers and the Air Force Research
Laboratory (AFRL) to ensure concept and technology development efforts are
synchronized. Additionally, the SMP serves as the foundation for our inputs to
Air Staff planning and programming documents such as the Annual Planning and
Programming Guidance (APPG) and the Air Force Program Projection (AFPP). In
summary, the SMP provides a sense of direction that keeps us on the path for
achieving the Vision.
Figure 1-1: SMP
guides development of space capabilities for a fully integrated Aerospace
Force
The SMP addresses each of AFSPC’s mission
areas. Throughout the document, these areas are addressed in terms of the
desired end state capabilities needed to meet AFSPC’s long-range vision. As
shown in Figure 1-2, AFSPC’s missions are organized
into five mission areas: Force Enhancement, Space Support, Space Control, Force
Applications and Mission Support.
Force Enhancement focuses on capabilities that
enable or support military air, land, sea and space operations. Force
Enhancement consists of six sub-mission areas: space-based Navigation, Satellite
Communications (SATCOM), Environmental Monitoring (EM), Surveillance and Threat
Warning (S&TW), Command and Control (C2) and Information Operations
(IO).
Space Support focuses on providing the critical
infrastructure, capabilities and technologies that enable the Force Enhancement,
Space Control and Force Applications Mission Areas to effectively perform their
missions. Space Support consists of two sub-mission areas: Launch Operations and
Satellite Operations. In addition, Space Support is the champion for Modeling,
Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) as well as Force Development Evaluation
(FDE).
Space Control focuses on capabilities to gain and
maintain control of activities conducted in or through space. Space
Control includes three sub-mission areas: Space Surveillance, Counterspace and
National Missile Defense (NMD).
Force Applications focuses on missions carried out
by weapons systems operating in or through space for holding terrestrial targets
at risk. Force Applications includes both nuclear and conventional strike
capabilities.
As Figure 1-2 shows, our
Mission Support functional areas cut across all of our mission areas and
provide the required foundation. The six Mission Support functional areas
addressed in this SMP are: Communications and Information; Civil Engineering;
Logistics; Security Forces; Space Training, Education and Exercise (STEDE); and
Medical.
Figure 1-2: Mission
and Mission Support areas encapsulate AFSPC capabilities
This SMP is entitled the Strategic
Master Plan for FY02 and Beyond. The title of the document has changed
to reflect its long range focus and to highlight its impact on the resource
allocation process. It lays out a 25-year plan for achieving the AFSPC Vision
and is intended to influence the FY02-07 Program Objective Memorandum (POM).
New results are presented from the latest cycle of the
two-year AFSPC IPP. The Vision, Current Capabilities and Strategy chapters have
been modified slightly to incorporate our evolving emphasis on IO. The remaining
chapters, however, present new results including our updated set of prioritized
Needs and new roadmaps reflecting our proposed solutions resulting from the
1998-1999 IPP. A cost-constrained Mission Support Roadmap and associated
assessment are included for the first time in this SMP.
In addition, this SMP includes tighter linkage between
planning and programming than earlier versions. We have provided specific
guidance and programming priorities for consideration by AFSPC, AFMC and AFRL
programmers during their respective POM developments.
Finally, we’ve added a classified Annex to this version
of the SMP, under separate cover, to address the interrelationship and synergy
between National and Air Force space programs and associated plans.
Figure 1-3
depicts the relationship of the SMP to other documents that either guide, are
produced through, or are influenced by our IPP. (Appendix A provides an overview
of the four-phased IPP.) AFSPC’s Mission Area Plans (MAP) and Mission Support
Plan (MSP), the Product Centers’ Development Plans (DP) and AFRL’s Science and
Technology (S&T) Plan are produced during the IPP in support of the SMP. The
SMP presents our desired investment plans and strategies to the Air Force
corporate structure (panels, Air Force Group, Board of Directors, etc.) to
influence the Air Staff planning and programming documents. The SMP also
provides guidance for the AFSPC and S&T POMs to support development of the
Air Force POM.
The United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) Long Range
Plan (LRP) and the Integrated Priority Lists (IPL) from each of the supported
Commanders-in-Chief (CINCs) define key warfighting capabilities that are
addressed during the IPP. Chapter 7 includes an evaluation of how well our SMP
supports these warfighting capabilities.
Figure 1-3: The SMP
provides integrated, fiscally-constrained planning information to the
requirements, programming and budgeting processes.
Several other major planning initiatives
are underway to define how the Air Force will be organized and based in the
future, what the missions will be and how those missions will be performed in
relation to other agencies and the commercial sector. Key developments and
initiatives are listed in Figure 1-4. A summary of
each initiative is included in Appendix B.
Results of these developments and initiatives will guide
our planning efforts and will be reflected in future editions of our MAPs, MSP
and SMP. Specific near-term actions related to these developments and
initiatives are included in the Action Plan, Chapter 9.
Figure 1-4: Evolving developments
and initiatives will impact future AFSPC planning
Figure 1-5
outlines the flow of the SMP. Following the Executive Summary and the SMP
Overview, we present our Vision and desired end states for each mission area.
Chapter 3 identifies our current missions, systems and capabilities. Next,
Chapter 4 identifies the AFSPC prioritized Needs that must be satisfied to
achieve our Vision.
Chapter 5 describes our phased implementation strategy,
which sets the emphasis for obtaining the required warfighting improvements over
the 25-year planning period to satisfy the Needs listed in Chapter 4.
Chapter 6 presents our Integrated Phased Implementation
Plan for achieving our Vision. This chapter consists of an integrated
modernization roadmap depicting the critical milestones for program and system
development, a cost profile and several supporting roadmaps.
Chapter 7 provides an assessment of how well the
implementation plan satisfies AFSPC Needs, the USSPACECOM LRP Operational
Concepts and the CINC IPLs.
Chapter 8 provides prioritized programming and budgeting
guidance for use by AFSPC programmers, the Air Staff, Product Centers and AFRL
to keep us on the appropriate path to achieve our Vision. Specific near-term
actions needed to successfully implement the plan are identified in the Action
Plan, Chapter 9.
Finally, under separate cover, the classified annex
addresses the interrelationship and synergy between National and Air Force space
programs.
Figure 1-5: Document
Flow
Main
Executive
Summary Table
Of Contents
Chapter
2 Chapter
3 Chapter
4 Chapter
5 Chapter
6 Chapter
7 Chapter
8 Chapter
9
Appendix
A Appendix
B Appendix
C Appendix
D Appendix
E Appendix
F