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January 04, 2007
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 Operationally Responsive Space: "A New Business Model"

Operationally Responsive Space Experiment

The Secretary of Defenses’ Office of Force Transformation (OFT) is currently undertaking an initiative, which seeks to provide operationally responsive access to, and near term tactical exploitation of, space. TacSat-1 is the first adaptive experiment in this initiative, which seeks to exploit access to space within the operational contingency planning cycle.

One of the objectives of TacSat-1, as well as the broader initiative, is to make space assets and their capabilities available to operational users. Additionally, OFT intends for the TacSat-1 experiment to generate policies where concepts and technology co-evolve, ultimately ensuring that space-based assets emerge as an organic part of the Joint Task Force. Read more...  

The Latest News This briefing provides an overview of the ORS concept. It highlights the vision, attributes and concept of operations for the model. Additionally, it describes the TacSat-1 experiement, the payload capabilities resident on the satellite and the transformational impacts of TacSat-1 realized to date.

Statement of Arthur K. Cebrowski Before the Subcommitee on Strategic Forces In March 2004, Adm Cebrowski was invited to testify before the United States Senate Armed Services Committeee's Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.

Operationally Responsive Space: "A New Business Model" This briefing provides an overview of the ORS concept. It highlights the vision, attributes and concept of operations for the model. Additionally, it describes the TacSat-1 experiement, the payload capabilities resident on the satellite and the transformational impacts of TacSat-1 realized to date.

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