Warfighting commanders need a reliable, responsive, and autonomous capability to provide direct downlink to report on tactical ballistic missiles using Defense Support Program satellites or IR (infrared) data for early warning and alerting. Operations have demonstrated a need and Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS) testing began in 1993. JTAGS provides ballistic missile warning and enhanced IR coverage 24/7, 365 days a year. The 1st Space Company (Theater Missile Warning) has committed three of the five JTAGS command operational systems available forward to the field in Korea (Pacific Command), Stuttgart (European Command), and Qatar (Central Command). JTAGS sections will remain in operation until the fielding of the Multi Mission Mobile Processor (M3P) is completed around Fiscal Year 2010. JTAGS is operated by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/U.S. Army Forces Strategic Command and the 1st Space Brigade (U.S. Army), which is headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. The 1st Space Company (Theater Missile Warning) command and controls three detachments and six sections with 109 officers and Soldiers deployed throughout the world. The 1st Space Brigade will re-task organize with four forward and one strategic reserve back for multiple purposes to include operational responsiveness to all combatant commanders with the added value of providing Soldier predictability, better permanent change of station rotations, and family quality of life.
Organize As We Fight: Army Theater Missile Warning -- JTAGS
2006
3 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Military Sciences , Antimissile Defense Systems , Infrared & Ultraviolet Detection , Unmanned Spacecraft , Theater missile defense , Early warning systems , Reconnaissance satellites , Ground stations , Organizational realignment , Infrared detection , Army , Military satellites , Downlinks , Satellite communications , Missions , Command and control systems , Mobile , Theater level operations , Forward areas , Reprints , Joint tactical ground stations , Jtags(Joint tactical ground stations) , M3p(Multi-mission mobile processors) , First space company , Tactical ballistic missiles , Sbirs(Space-based infrared system)
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