REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama -- When looking to the future of space operations, the nation continues to look to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command.
In Fiscal Year 2016, the USASMDC/ARSTRAT Future Warfare Center's Directorate of Training and Doctrine, or DOTD, trained more than 8,750 Warfighters and civilians on space and missile defense operations.
"Part of USASMDC/ARSTRAT's mission is to provide trained and equipped Soldiers in support of space and missile defense operational missions," said Michael C. Madsen, DOTD chief of institutional training. "The mission of DOTD is to educate and train forces, and develop Army doctrine for space and missile defense operations to enable Army forces to support combatant commands. Our vision is to have Army space and missile defense forces trained and ready for the challenges of tomorrow."
DOTD is a U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command accredited institution of excellence that provides space and missile defense institutional training support to SMDC and the Army, as well as meeting the Army's directive of providing Army space training strategy support.
The Army Space Training Strategy is the part of the institutional line of effort that DOTD conducts at proponent schools across the Army.
"In addition, DOTD provides Army space and missile defense doctrine support to SMDC and to the Army, as well as collective training and mission essential task list support to our operational units at the 1st Space Brigade and 100th Missile Defense Brigade," Madsen said.
SMDC created the Army Space Personnel Development Office in 2009 by merging the Army Space Cadre Office and the Functional Area 40, or FA40, Personnel Development Office.
ASPDO develops policies and procedures for the Army space cadre and executes the life-cycle management functions of the FA40 Space Operations Officers. DOTD supports the goal of ensuring the Army has trained personnel to meet national security space needs. The Army's space cadre encompasses 3,399 billets, which includes 285 active component FA40 space operations officers.
The Army's space cadre is made up of Soldiers and civilians, across all Army warfighting functions. Their mission is to develop, plan, acquire and operate space capabilities to fulfill mission requirements in the five space mission areas: Space Situational Awareness; Space Force Enhancement; Space Support; Space Control; and Space Force Application.
"While our courses are designed to support Army Soldiers in space and missile defense operational positions and units, DOTD also trains airmen, sailors, Marines, government civilians and contractors," Madsen said. "For fiscal year 2016, approximately 325 personnel were trained in missile defense institutional courses; 1,915 personnel were trained in space institutional courses; and 6,520 personnel were trained in Army space training strategy lessons."
The DOTD provides missile defense and space institutional training for the Army. The current and future courses for missile defense include: Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, or GMD, Fire Control Qualification Course; Command Launch Equipment Qualification Course; Army GMD Staff Course; GMD Senior Leader Course; GMD Missile Defense Officer Course; GMD N2C2 Course; GMD Advanced Operator Course; AN/TPY-2 Forward-Based Mode Sensor Manager Qualification Course; Sensor Manager Leader Development Course; Sensor Manager Executive Seminar; C2BMC Planner Course; and Engagement Coordination Course.
The current and future space institutional training courses include: Space Operations Officer Qualification Course; Space Senior Leader Seminar; Army Space Cadre Basic Course: Satellite Communication, or SATCOM, Electromagnetic Interference Fundamentals Course; Electromagnetic Interference Characterization Course; Army Space Control Fundamentals Course; Mobile Integrated Ground Suite, or MIGS, Initial Qualification Training, or IQT; Advanced MIGS Operations; Advanced Space Control Systems Courses; Army Space Control Command and Control Course; Space Control Planners Course; Tactical Space Operations Courses; Joint Tactical Ground Station, or JTAGS, IQT; and JTAGS Leader Development Course.
"Classes for our missile defense and space institutional courses, as well as our Army space training strategy lessons are taught throughout the fiscal year," Madsen said. "Many of them are resident courses taught in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, while others are taught by mobile training teams at locations worldwide in support of operational units."
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