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DM hosts military transition resource event
U.S. Airmen attend a military transition resource event hosted by Matthew Langseth, City of Tuc- son military veteran program coordinator, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Feb. 1, 2024.
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training, you have to understand how you work together, in-comms, Chief of Space Operations Gen.
out of comms, with other units, Chance Saltzman said a change
in order to continue to achieve underway within the Space Force
the kinds of effects in a contested is to enhance readiness by imple-
domain when an adversary, a menting standards that reflect
capable adversary, is doing every- operations under contested condi-
thing they can to stop you from tions rather than those of a benign
being successful.”
environment.
Space Force, he said, will build “The legacy force that we had,
a training infrastructure and a our roots ... were built around
test infrastructure to validate efficiency, built around a benign
its tactics so operators will know environment,” he said. “So, the
more than just how to operate standards for readiness that we
equipment — but will be success- kind of held our forces to was
ful against an adversary. different. It wasn’t built for the
Kristyn Jones, who is currently domains that we’re facing, a con-
performing the duties of the un- tested domain.”
dersecretary of the Air Force, also Now, Saltzman said, the Space
pointed to changes at Department Force must rewrite its standards
of the Air Force level. There, she for readiness centered around a
said, among those changes, the contested domain, rather than an
department expects to create an uncontested domain.
Air Force Integrated Capabilities Spotlight: DoD Space
Office to lead capability develop- Strategy
ment and resource prioritization. That, he said, means in part
The office is expected to drive having the right mix of officers,
Department of the Air Force mod- enlisted personnel and civilians in
ernization investments.
Space Force units. It also means
“We’ll be looking at capabilities training must be aimed at more
across our services, not in stove- than just procedural competency.
pipes,” she said. “We’re enabling “As soon as you put a red force
end-to-end creation of effects. This in the mix, as soon as you put
organization will help us to priori- a threat in the mix, it radically
tize our investments and will be changes your training,” he said.
responsible for working with us “You have to have advanced
to determine the next iteration of training, you have to have tactics
operational imperatives.”
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