Book/Printed Material The resilience assessment framework : assessing commercial contributions to U.S. Space Force mission resilience

Title

• The resilience assessment framework : assessing commercial contributions to U.S. Space Force mission resilience

Summary

• Over the past few years, commercial space services have significantly increased in capability and capacity in many missions of interest to the U.S. Space Force (USSF). As the USSF considers incorporating such commercial space services into its missions, it needs a principled and flexible assessment framework for evaluating how commercial contributions affect the performance and resilience of various USSF missions. This report describes the resilience assessment framework that RAND Project AIR FORCE developed to assess the potential impact of select commercial services on USSF space mission performance. The framework includes four components to help analysts consider the additional mission performance and mission resilience that a proposed commercial service could provide. The prospect of incorporating commercial capabilities into defense missions also raises the question of trustworthiness and information assurance. The assessment framework includes a subframework focused on grading information contributions from commercial services for trustworthiness. To demonstrate how the framework can be tailored to diverse missions by specifying the relevant mission assets or infrastructure, the commercial services available, and the mission performance measures, the authors apply the framework to two example missions: tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and data transmit and receive network. They then discuss their findings and propose several recommendations for the USSF to fully leverage the benefits of evaluating commercial capabilities with the resilience assessment framework.

Names

• Osoba, Osonde, author
• Barton, Charlie, author
• Eisman, Mel, 1949- author
• Hagen, Jeff, author
• Herron, Marissa, author
• Lynch, Christopher M., author
• Nacouzi, George, author
• Tran, Jonathan, author
• Zhang, Li Ang (Information Scientist), author
• United States. Department of the Air Force
• Project AIR FORCE (U.S.). Force Modernization and Employment Program
• Rand Corporation

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2023]

Contents

• Chapter One: Overview of the Resilience Analysis Framework -- Chapter Two: Estimating Mission Capabilities and Resilience -- Chapter Three: Trust Assessment -- Chapter Four: Illustrative Mission Analyses -- Chapter Five: Summary and Future Directions.

Headings

• -  United States.--Space Force
• -  Artificial satellites
• -  Astronautics, Military--United States

Notes

• -  Minimal Level Cataloging Plus.
• -  Title from PDF document (viewed April 28, 2023)
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-46).
• -  Description based on electronic resource
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (ix, 46 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

• MLCM 2024/41239 (U)

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024739024

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024739024

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024739024

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