AF Funded ORSSats
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office (Space RCO) mission is to expedite the development and fielding of operationally focused capabilities for immediate and near term needs as directed by the Space RCO Board of Directors (BoD) for Guardians across Space Control, Operations, and Warfighting. Key operating principles include a short and narrow chain of command, overarching programmatic insight, early and prominent war fighter involvement, and small integrated teams within a single office to rapidly augment existing space capabilities when needed, to expand operational capability, reconstitute/replenish/protect critical space capabilities to reserve "continuity of operations" capability, and exploit space technological or operational innovations to increase U.S. advantage. As a result, the Service will deter, neutralize, defeat and/or destroy counterspace threats and defend the homeland. The Service will also augment, supplement, and/or integrate Allies, partners, and commercial space to USSF units. Furthermore, the Service will continue to advance all near term effects and provide resilient infrastructure, equipment, and personnel. The Space RCO is ready to develop, test, train, and equip war fighter needs as they are identified at any time. First, the requirements must be validated by the commander U.S. Space Command; second, the project must be approved by the Space RCO BoD; third, the project will be executed by the Space RCO. If the effort is initiated during execution year, it will be described in the next year's budget exhibit. Space RCO is supporting the Rapid Resilient Command and Control (R2C2) Combined Program Office (CPO) in FY 2025. The R2C2 CPO utilizes the Space RCO acquisition authorities under the Space RCO Program Executive Officer to execute funding in the Enterprise Ground Services (EGS) and Ground Command, Control, and Communications (GC3) program elements to develop an extensible, scalable, modular ground segment solution capable of supporting protect and defend missions of the United States Space Force. Combined EGS and GC3 funding will be used wholly and directly to support CPO activities. R2C2 will continue development and integration of the satellite operations (SatOps) ground segment solution to support the protect and defend mission set, including, but not limited to, capabilities and services needed to perform mission control.
FY2027 planned work Will continue to initiate rapid acquisition projects, studies, and analyses that address emergent capabilities requirements and other Space RCO BoD approved efforts. Will continue ongoing systems engineering support of future mission development. Additionally, FY 2027 funding will allow the program to rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in the contested space domain. Activities include, but are not limited to, program office support, civilian pay, systems engineering, studies, technical analyses, experimentation, prototyping, etc.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 increased due to inflation adjustment.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue to initiate rapid acquisition projects, studies, and analyses that address emergent capabilities requirements and other Space RCO BoD approved efforts. Continue ongoing systems engineering support of future mission development. Additionally, FY 2026 funding will allow the program to rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in the contested space domain. Activities include, but are not limited to, program office support, civilian pay, systems engineering, studies, technical analyses, experimentation, prototyping, etc.