I wish it would go faster but it just takes time.” “That’s how the culture is going to change as well,” she said. These will be the experts who will shape Space Force doctrine and strategy. “It’s going to take 10 years before those individuals are squadron commanders and squadron superintendents,” she said. The specialization will continue beyond that as operators start working on specific weapon systems “so you start building that depth,” she said. They will head to Colorado Springs this summer for “space warfighter follow on” traning and will bid for one of the new career tracks, Burt said. The new undergraduate space training class graduated last month at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Just like graduates of Air Force pilot training choose a specialized career track flying fighters, bombers or large airlift planes, space professionals will have their own career tracks focused on space missions. Starting this year, graduates of the Air Force undergraduate space training school who transition to the Space Force will have the option to pursue specialized career tracks such as orbital warfare, space electronic warfare, space battle management, and space access and sustainment. Daniel Dant, of the Space Force Association. DeAnna Burt, director of Space Force operations and communications at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.Īs a space officer growing up in the Air Force, “we were jacks of all trades but masters of none,” Burt said in a May 6 video interview with retired Col. It is important to “build depth” in the Space Force, said Brig. At the same time, the Space Force plans to begin developing its own cadre of officers who will be steeped in the intricacies of orbital operations. Air Force officers and enlisted operators who will lateral over. The space service is being formed with U.S. The expertise that Space Force leaders call “space warfighting skills” will take years to build. Space Force is to fill its ranks with expert operators who can command and control satellites but also can protect them from anti-satellite weapons and cyber attacks. WASHINGTON - One of the goals of the U.S.
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