Title Expansion or marginalization : how effects-based organization could determine the future of Air Force Space Command

Published Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air Force Research Institute, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (58 pages) Series Research paper / Air Force Research Institute ; 2008-1 Research paper (Air University (U.S.). Air Force Research Institute) ; 2008-1 Summary Air Force Space Command is currently organized around a domain: it does things in and through space. Such an organization is not optimal, as it ignores synergies gained from effects-based organization: the grouping of missions according to similar effects instead of platforms and platform locations. Events already in motion appear poised to push Space Command to the sidelines unless it proactively embraces missions in other domains that produce effects similar to what it currently does exclusively from space. The newly announced Air Force Cyberspace Command could suffer from similar problems since it is similarly organized around a domain instead of effects. This paper proposes a change in Air Force organizational structure that deemphasizes the domain and stresses effects; combat effects are separated from combat support effects so that these effects-based synergies can best be exploited. An Air Force Space Command combined with the new Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency would become the cornerstone of a new combat support command that would enable a single commander to support joint Department of Defense operations and the intelligence community more effectively than is possible under the current structure. Such a new command could quickly become the nation's preeminent provider of high-ground command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) effects Analysis AIR FORCE CYBER COMMAND AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND COMBAT EFFECTS COMBAT SUPPORT EFFECTS CROSS-DOMAIN DOMINANCE CYBERSPACE INTELLIGENCE DOMAIN-BASED ORGANIZATIONS EFFECTS-BASED ORGANIZATIONS Notes "July 2008." At head of title: Air University, Curtis E. Lemay Center for Doctrine Development and Education Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-39) Notes Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (viewed February 23, 2017) Subject United States. Air Force Space Command United States. Air Force -- Organization SUBJECT United States. Air Force Space Command. fast (OCoLC)fst00655786 United States. Air Force. fast (OCoLC)fst00538280 Subject Effects-based operations (Military science) Administration and management. Air force. Command control communications. Intelligence. Organizational realignment. Reconnaissance. Space defense. Space surveillance. Artificial satellites. Combat effectiveness. Combat support. Computer networks. Defense systems. Military forces and organizations. Missions. Operational effectiveness. Space warfare. Synergism. Armed Forces -- Organization. Effects-based operations (Military science) Form Electronic book Author Air University (U.S.). Air Force Research Institute, issuing body Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education

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