JICSpOC to achieve initial operations this year

By Courtney Albon / September 20, 2016 at 9:32 AM
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- The new Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center -- pegged as the first operational construct of the Defense Department's Third Offset Strategy -- is poised to achieve initial operations by the end of this year. The JICSpOC has served as an experimental hub for new operational tactics, techniques and procedures since it was stood up last October. Rear Admiral Brian Brown, deputy commander of U.S. Strategic Command's Joint Functional Component Command for Space, told reporters Sept...

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