Book/Printed Material Resilient partnerships for U.S. military satellite communication missions : designing a method to assess the impact of partnerships on resilience Resilient partnerships for United States military satellite communication missions / Designing a method to assess the impact of partnerships on resilience

Title

• Resilient partnerships for U.S. military satellite communication missions : designing a method to assess the impact of partnerships on resilience

Other Title

• Resilient partnerships for United States military satellite communication missions
• Designing a method to assess the impact of partnerships on resilience

Summary

• The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is seeking to enhance the resilience of its space operations. This report documents the authors' development of a methodology to define, assess, and evaluate resilience criteria over time--with a focus on the qualitative assessments of subject-matter experts (SMEs)--and the application of that methodology to measure the impact of partnerships on the operational resilience of the U.S. military satellite communications (MILSATCOM) mission. The authors used semistructured interviews to elicit logic models regarding how and why integrating partners into MILSATCOM missions could affect resilience. The authors then formulated explanatory paired logic statements about how partnerships affect resilience and used these paired logic statements in a survey designed to ascertain whether the paired items are independent factors that should be modeled as separate inputs in later quantitative resilience modeling. The authors find that SME consensus appears to be deeply affected by the confounding factor that U.S. military personnel believe that the United States lacks the tools, training, and procedures needed to rapidly reallocate MILSATCOM resources in response to an adversary attack. Until this is remedied, more-detailed analyses regarding how best to integrate coalition and commercial partner resources will be obscured by a lack of trust that those resources can and will be properly integrated. The report should be of interest to those seeking to understand how partnerships can be leveraged to improve the resilience of the MILSATCOM mission and those interested in methods to evaluate the validity of qualitative assessments about those partnerships.

Names

• Triezenberg, Bonnie L., author
• Langeland, Krista S., author
• McLeod, Gary, 1948- author

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, [2024]

Contents

• The Methodology -- Application of the Methodology -- Summary and Conclusions.

Headings

• -  United States.--Space Force--Communication systems--Evaluation
• -  United States.--Space Force--Communication systems--Reliability
• -  Artificial satellites in telecommunication--United States--Evaluation
• -  Artificial satellites in telecommunication--United States--Reliability
• -  Public-private sector cooperation--United States--Evaluation
• -  United States.--Space Force--Operational readiness--Evaluation
• -  Communications, Military--Evaluation
• -  United States--Armed Forces--Communication systems--Evaluation
• -  United States--Armed Forces--Operational readiness--Evaluation
• -  Commercial Satellites
• -  Military Communication Systems
• -  Military Satellites
• -  Operational Readiness
• -  Satellite Communication
• -  United States Space Force
• -  Satellites artificiels dans les télécommunications--États-Unis
• -  Communications militaires
• -  États-Unis--Forces armées--Systèmes de communication
• -  Military Communications
• -  Satellite Communications
• -  Space Force

Notes

• -  "Prepared for the Department of the Air Force, approved for public release; distribution unlimited."
• -  Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-65).
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (ix, 65 pages) : illustrations.

Call Number/Physical Location

• UA943

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024739854

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024739854

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

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024739854

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