Space Force creates 'System Delta' to enhance IMD mission of unified command

The Space Force announced Friday it is creating a new "System Delta" model to leverage the Integrated Mission Deltas goals to organize mission area resources under one command.

“These units will directly complement IMDs by developing, acquiring and fielding capability that satisfies operational needs,” Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, said in the announcement.

“Organizing the Space Force so IMDs in [Space Operations Command] have a clear SYD counterpart in [Space Systems Command] will streamline the feedback and focus the reach-back support between capability development and readiness generation,” he said.

According to the announcement, the new SYDs prototype is to synchronize the advanced technology of “weapon systems in real-time input from operators.”

Recently, Saltzman, at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference, introduced IMD, a two-prototype unit, as part of the Space Force’s third element -- new force generation -- to create new structures and processes.

“There are no perfect organizational structures. The structuring of people to do their jobs will always create seams,” Saltzman said, explaining the new force-generation concept at the conference.

Saltzman added that one IMD prototype will support electromagnetic mission warfare and another prototype is a new organization to support positioning, navigation and timing.

Space Operations Command developed the first provisional IMDs for EW and PNT on Oct. 12 and SYDs will be developed by Space Systems Command in the coming months, the announcement reads.