Space Security and Defense Program

Mission — Space Protection Program source

This Program Element (PE) 1206730SF, Space Security and Defense Program (SSDP) funds activities executed by the Joint Department of Defense (DoD) and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) organization Space Security and Defense Program. The Program and organization were established to function as the center of excellence for options and strategies (materiel, non-materiel, cross-Title, cross-domain) leading to a more resilient National Security Space (NSS) Enterprise. The organization and its activities operate under the authority of the Deputy Secretary of Defense (DEPSECDEF) and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI). SSDP's unique position with both the DoD and ODNI, authorities from both the DEPSECDEF and PDDNI, and broad NSS-scoped mission-set provides a crucial and objective protection competency to advance the highest priority efforts to deliver economical, programmatically-executable, and operationally-relevant space protection solutions for the Nation. SSDP-funded activities support NSS stakeholders including the DoD, Intelligence Community (IC), civil, commercial, and international space entities/missions supporting current and future national security operations in both peacetime and throughout all phases of conflict. In this capacity, SSDP employs these funds to lead and collaborate on NSS susceptibility and vulnerability assessments, and threat mitigation processes. Its breadth of activities span the capability to conduct rigorous foundational analyses in order to understand red counterspace threat and blue operations environments, and to plan and execute projects to discover, analyze, and validate near-term and far-term options to detect, track, and mitigate and/or render these threats (including emerging space and transmedium threats) ineffective. SSDP analytic products to mitigate/defeat adversary counterspace threats either manifest themselves in validated materiel solution recommendations to corporate decision processes (including system and/or architectural requirements and potential investment opportunities), or as non-materiel recommendations such as Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP), Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), and/or space policy, or a combination of both. Regardless, SSDP threat analyses and models of all sorts are shared across the NSS enterprise to ensure efficiency and speed of analysis, and ultimately produce results in more resilient space effects for national security missions. This program element may include necessary emergent or unanticipated civilian pay expenses required to manage and execute SSDP and/or deliver products for emergent or unanticipated weapon system capabilities. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

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