Air Force Space Command
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The Air Force Space Command is a major command of the United States Air Force, which, like other service organizations not part of Unified Combatant Commands (UCC), is responsible for doctrinal development, procurement, training and readiness of resources to be made available to the warfighting UCCs. In this case, the warfighting UCC that would employ its intercontinental ballistic missiles would be United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). USSTRATCOM also has a global intelligence and communications responsibility that AFSPC helps support, but AFSPC would also provide units for handling satellite communications and warning, etc., to the regional UCCs.
It is currently commanded by GEN C. Robert Kehler, who reports to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
Directly reporting units
- Fourteenth Air Force
- Twentieth Air Force
- 310th Space Wing, the U.S. Air Force Reserve command for space-related personnel
- Space and Missile Systems Center
- Space Innovation and Development Center
- Space Analysis Resource Portal (SARP)
Major systems
Weapons and space launch vehicles
Communications and Navigation
- Advanced Extremely High Frequency (satellite) (AEHF) System
- Defense Satellite Communications System
- Global Positioning System
- MILSTAR Milstar Satellite Communications System
- Wideband Global Satellite
Intelligence and warning systems
- Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
- Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance electro-optical tracking
- PAVE PAWS Radar System
- Electro-optical MASINT satellites, including the Defense Support Program
