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Space Warfighting Analysis Center to Examine Shortfalls in Space Domain Awareness

Space Warfighting Analysis Center to Examine Shortfalls in Space Domain Awareness
Maj. Gen. Leah Lauderback (second from right), the U.S. Space Force's director of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, with Col. Chandler Atwood (far right), Space Delta 7 commander, visits the Delta 7 team Jan. 28. at Peterson AFB, Colo. The Space Force’s intelligence apparatus was recognized as a member of the national intelligence community Jan. 8, and was the first new organization to join since 2006 (U.S. Space Force Photo)

Over the next year, the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC) is to examine shortfalls in space domain awareness and how to remedy them, a top USSF official said on Apr. 2. Maj. Gen. Leah Lauderback, USSF's director of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), told a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Aerospace Nation forum that building space situational awareness is a priority and "the capability to look at adversary systems and to be able to characterize those…

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