Combat Forces Command Creates New Ops Centers for SATCOM and EW
By Courtney Albon Air force magazine
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The Space Force’s Combat Forces Command is expanding its footprint with the creation of two new operations hubs for electronic warfare and satellite communications.
Former CFC commander Lt. Gen. David Miller announced in September at AFA’s Air, Space, and Cyber Conference that Mission Delta 3 had established its first Space Electronic Warfare Tactical Operations Center, or SEWTOC, to “synchronize” both surveillance of EW threats as well as the way Guardians provide their own EW effects.
“We’re able to geolocate that capability in the future on seconds-to-minutes timelines, whereas we had to deploy capability to augment to do it in the past, and we’ll be able to remotely synchronize in a fallback posture across multiple areas of responsibility,” Miller said at the time.
Mission Delta 3, which is responsible for training and presenting electromagnetic warfare operators, is running the first SEWTOC location in Colorado Springs, Colo., where it’s integrating two key space EW systems: Bounty Hunter and a signal jamming system called the Remote Modular Terminal.
Delta commander Col. Angelo Fernandez told reporters Dec. 11 at the Spacepower Conference in Florida that the new operations center construct supports CFC’s move toward a more hybrid approach to deploying EW systems both at home and in theaters around the world. He noted that the mission delta is increasingly focused on providing long-range EW fires that can be delivered at scale and with the same level of precision that an advanced aircraft would provide.
“We could have weapon systems forward in the theater, operators in the rear, and vice versa,” Fernandez said on the sidelines of the conference. “What it does is it brings this resiliency layer to our current posture to be able to conduct and meet the global demands levied on our teams and then have them tactically aligned with the appropriate combatant commander.”