{"id":578243,"date":"2025-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=578243"},"modified":"2025-08-09T07:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:18:48","slug":"partnerships-key-to-space-superiority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=578243","title":{"rendered":"Partnerships key to space superiority"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Brig. Gen. Donald Brooks, deputy commanding general for operations, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, addresses 2025 SMD Symposium attendees at the USSPACECOM Panel, Aug. 5, 2025, in Huntsville, Ala.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama \u2013 Senior Army leader stressed the importance of interoperability, partnerships, and next generation technology for space superiority during a Space and Missile Defense Symposium here Aug. 5.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin Space and Missile Defense Command, we\u2019ve identified how to iterate faster, how to evolve our culture to shape innovation from our overarching strategy,\u201d said Brig. Gen. Don Brooks, deputy, commanding general of operations, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado.<\/p>\n

After looking at the National Defense Strategy, the Army looked at long-term orbital and terrestrial threats. It\u2019s rewriting the Army space strategy to roadmap manning, training and education.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get feedback from warfighters, from the operational force, from experimentation, the exercise elements and the forces out there in the field,\u201d he said. \u201cFeedback from our schoolhouses and Soldiers help us stay on top of our training and education components. These touchpoints, getting feedback as quickly as possible, it\u2019s how we\u2019re now bringing the fight into our systems and our processes to help us iterate faster and evolve our culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

His team provides U.S. Space Command vital, terrestrial, interdiction and integration space capabilities, personnel and expertise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are essential to warfighting and the Space Command\u2019s mission of ensuring the U.S.\u2019s freedom of action and movement maneuver within the space domain, while delivering space combat power to the joint force,\u201d said Brooks.<\/p>\n

Space capability integration creates significant advantages for ground forces such as Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, precision targeting, long-haul communications, interdiction capabilities, and the ability to degrade an adversary\u2019s ability to use the space domain at the time and place of their choosing.<\/p>\n

Soldiers use space superiority to deny, degrade, and disrupt the enemy\u2019s ability to communicate, to shape, to influence, conduct surveillance, or to use their own precision guided munitions within the battlespace.<\/p>\n

The Army has taken an evolutionary step with space interdiction, introducing smaller, lighter, more mobile capabilities. They\u2019ve also updated and published the Army Space Training Strategy to further ingrain space inside of multi-domain operations across operational and institutional aspects of the Army.<\/p>\n

Each of the services within Space Command share lessons learned and what works for intergovernmental, interagency, multinational and commercial partners to create asymmetric advantages in the joint command as it solidifies Multinational Force Operation Olympic Defender.<\/p>\n

Olympic Defender globally integrates military space power, enables joint and combined forces, deters aggression, and if necessary, defeats adversaries in order to retain military advantage.<\/p>\n

Part of that advantage is innovation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our future, innovation is key. We can\u2019t do it alone,\u201d said Brooks. \u201cIf we encounter an adversary that\u2019s got magazine depth and not just kinetic capabilities, but other non-lethal producing capabilities as well, we need to find efficiencies across our services. We need to work together, talk to each other, counter communications, surveillance, reconnaissance, navigation warfare, high altitude with balloons or fixed wing aircraft, not just in the terrestrial realm, but also to support the extraterrestrial flight as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The key to Olympic Defender is partnerships.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe partnerships between our allied nations and the U.S. provider are irreplaceable,\u201d said Brooks. \u201cCommercial industries working alongside their host nation militaries give us a technical advantage in space domain awareness. It\u2019s really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Operationally, the Army has been working with the British Army on target development, weaponeering and electronic warfare. The Army is looking to partner with New Zealand, Australia and Canada at the Space Missile Defense Command school in the future.<\/p>\n

Brooks said the U.S. Army shares lessons learned, observations, exercises and experiments with soldiers from the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France and Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpace is the connective tissue of all warfighting functions, command and control, movement maneuver, intelligence, fires, and protecting sustainment information,\u201d said Brooks. \u201cIt is that connective tissue that provides us lethality in our combat power, which then increases deterrent effect against our adversaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpace is critical. What we do today, what we do in the future, it\u2019s critically dependent on the partnerships we have with the joint intergovernmental interagency and multinational and commercial partners,\u201d said Brooks. \u201cThey will allow us to go faster, lighter, and leaner to produce more effective, more efficient capabilities at the speed of relevancy, evolving our culture, building faster, and delivering faster capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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