{"id":51308,"date":"2024-05-09T00:48:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/intelligence-operating-entities-need-to-shed-noforn-mindset-space-operations-chief-says\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T00:48:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:48:14","slug":"intelligence-operating-entities-need-to-shed-noforn-mindset-space-operations-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/intelligence-operating-entities-need-to-shed-noforn-mindset-space-operations-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence, Operating Entities Need to Shed \u2018NOFORN\u2019 Mindset, Space Operations Chief Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

KISSIMMEE, Fla. <\/em>\u2014 U.S. history shows the country does not go to war alone and, amid war in Central Europe and coercive activities by China against its neighbors, America will not go to war in the future without allies, which mean the U.S. intelligence community and operators need to share information with allies and partners, the commander of U.S. Space Operations Command<\/strong> said on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have built systems in our intelligence enterprise, but sometimes in our operational enterprise candidly, that we stamp NOFORN on everything,\u201d Space Force Lt. Gen. David Miller said at the GEOINT 2024 Symposium. \u201cThat is a recipe for losing. The United States does not go into conflict alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

NOFORN is a label used by the intelligence community that means \u201cNot Releasable to Foreign Nationals,\u201d foreign governments, and foreign organizations.<\/p>\n

Miller said the battlespace must be seamless between the U.S. and its allies, and that coalition warfighters must be able to interoperate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to have our coalition partners a part of the formation and their shooters ready to receive this information,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it goes directly to them at the same time it goes to the United States Air Force or whoever the shooter is on our side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Limiting or preventing information sharing with coalition partners has negative impacts at the tactical level, Miller said. \u201cU.S. only\u201d is not the way, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just not the way joint and combined operations work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Miller said that current U.S. intelligence efforts are not meeting the needs of theater commanders and their warfighters in operationally relevant timelines. Miller did not name the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which is a combatant support agency that provides imagery and related analytics\u2014including targeting information\u2014to combatant and other field commanders.<\/p>\n

The Space Force is pushing to have its own capabilities and authorities to acquire moving target indicators \u2014 for both ground and air-based assets \u2014 from space.<\/p>\n

As the Space Force builds up its capabilities in targeting moving threats, it wants to get that information directly to shooters and tactical units, including coalition partners, Miller said later Monday during a media roundtable.<\/p>\n

The Space Force\u2019s Warfighting Analysis Center is developing the architecture, and is \u201cin the middle of resourcing\u201d the network, that will process and disseminate data directly to warfighters, he told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of our previous missions that we\u2019ve executed in our enterprise, the Department of Defense and with the intelligence community, we\u2019ve tended toward systems where we started U.S. only and as a result had a difficulty integrating our allies and partners\u201d Miller said. \u201cAnd what we\u2019re trying to do in the Space Force is insist on that\u2019s not the way to start. The U.S. doesn\u2019t fight by itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Work is ongoing to better integrated allies and partners, he said.<\/p>\n

The combined space operations team includes the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and discussions are underway with France, Germany, and Japan to receive data and examine if their personnel should be integrated \u201cinto our formations,\u201d Miller said. This cooperation is not at the level it was during the height of U.S. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq but that is the \u201cshared vision that we all want,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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