What the DAF Brings to the Fight (USSF Core Competencies)

Question 1

What are the five USSF core competencies?

Answer 1

1. Space Security
2. Combat Power Projection
3. Space Mobility and Logistics
4. Information Mobility
5. Space Domain Awareness (SDA)

Question 2

Establishes the conditioning for the safe and secure access to space for civil, commercial, Intelligence Community (IC), and multinational partners

Answer 2

Space Security

Question 3

Helps assure partners that the US military is positioned to monitor and protect their interests

Answer 3

Space Security

Question 4

Goal: freedom of action

Answer 4

Combat Power Projection

Question 5

Defensive operations ensure US freedom of action in space

Answer 5

Combat Power Projection

Question 6

Offensive operations deny an adversary’s freedom of action in space

Answer 6

Combat Power Projection

Question 7

Movement and support of military equipment and personnel into, through, and back from the space domain

Answer 7

Space Mobility & Logistics

Question 8

Depends on the ability to launch military equipment into the proper orbit in a safe, secure, & reliable manner

Answer 8

Space Mobility & Logistics

Question 9

Timely, rapid, reliable collection and transportation of data to even the most remote areas of human activity

Answer 9

Information Mobility

Question 10

Effective identification, characterization, understanding of any factor associated with the space domain that could affect operations

Answer 10

Space Domain Awareness (SDA)

Question 11

Extends across physical, network, and cognitive dimensions of space

Answer 11

Space Domain Awareness (SDA)