The Air Force doubled the tempo of the long-running Schriever Wargame from biennial, or every other year, to annual, according to a key official.
Schriever Wargame 2015, set in the year 2025, is exploring critical space issues and investigating the integration activities of multiple agencies associated with space systems and services, according to an Air Force statement. Schriever Wargame 2015 started on Friday and runs through Thursday, according to Executive Wargame Director Jason Altchek, who also said this is the 10th wargame in the series. Altchek told reporters Tuesday in a conference call believes Schriever Wargame 2015 is the only wargame with an “extreme focus” on space and cyber. 
Air Force spokeswoman Alethea Smock said Tuesday the service budgets $2.2 million for an annual wargame and partners with the rest of the wargaming community to find efficiencies when possible. Also new this year, he said, is having a combatant command, U.S. European Command (EUCOM), as a participant. Other stakeholders include allies Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom as well as the Army, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Fleet Cyber Command, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Executive Agent for Space Air Force Secretary Deborah James, Air Combat Command (ACC), Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), intelligence community (IC), NASA, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the departments of State, Transportation and Commerce.
The objectives of the wargame are centering on: identifying ways to increase the resilience of space that includes the IC, civil, commercial and allied partners; exploring how to provide optimized effects to the wargame in support of coalition operations; and examining how to apply future capabilities to protect the space enterprise in a multi-domain conflict.
Schriever Wargame 2015 depicts a peer space and cybespace competitor seeking to achieve strategic goals by exploiting those domains. It will include a global scenario with the focus of effort towards the EUCOM area of responsibility. The scenario also includes a full spectrum of threats across diverse operating environments to challenge civilian and military leaders, planners and space system operators, as well as the capabilities they employ.