How the Department of the Navy translates space support requirements into program plans

The Department of the Navy, as an equal partner in joint military efforts to exploit space-based capabilities for support of its forces at sea and ashore, has developed an effective process for ensuring that its space support reflects the emerging needs of the warfighting Fleet commanders-during routine peacetime operations right through crises into regional wars-as well as the most promising technologies which the nation´s combined research and development efforts have to offer. Translating those needs, and using those technologies, in developing effective space systems in a timely and cost efficient manner, is the challenge posed to Navy´s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and PEO for Space...a challenge repeatedly met with capabilities which permit the Fleet to fight smarter, quicker, more knowledgeably, and well inside any potential enemy´s “decision loop”