Joint Functional Component Command for Space

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The Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC SPACE) was a component of U.S. Strategic Command. The Command was established on 19 July 2006, and activated on 12 September 2006, [1] under the command of General William L. Shelton. The JFCC SPACE is headquartered at Vandenberg AFB, California, and was formed from the division of Joint Functional Component Command for Space and Global Strike (JFCC SGS) into two separate commands, JFCC SPACE and Joint Functional Component Command for Global Strike and Integration (JFCC GSI). It was inactivated on 1 December 2017 when it was replaced by the Joint Force Space Component. [2]

William L. Shelton US Air Force general

William Lee Shelton is a former United States Air Force four-star general who last served as the commander of Air Force Space Command from January 5, 2011 to August 15, 2014. He had been the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and Air Staff Director. He had served as Chief of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. Shelton held numerous positions of leadership throughout the United States Air Force. He retired from the Air Force on September 1, 2014.

Joint Functional Component Command for Space and Global Strike was a component of the United States Strategic Command. It was headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. The Commander, JFCC SGS was dual hatted as the Commander, Eighth Air Force and Commander, JFCC SGS. On 19 July 2006, JFCC SGS was reorganized into two separate JFCCs: Joint Functional Component Command for Global Strike and Integration and Joint Functional Component Command for Space. The Commander of JFCC SGS at the time of the reorganization was Lieutenant General Robert J. Elder, Jr., USAF, who became the new Commander of JFCC-GSI.

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CDR JFCC SPACE is also the Commander of Fourteenth Air Force (Air Force Space Command). While the Implementation Directive was signed 19 July, the JFCC SPACE activation ceremony was held 12 September 2006 at Vandenberg AFB, CA. Gen James E. Cartwright (CDRUSSTRATCOM) presided over the ceremony where he presented the JFCC SPACE colors to Maj Gen William L. Shelton. [3]

On April 4, 2017, Joint Functional Component Command for Space was renamed National Space Defense Center, "so that everybody can understand finally what it is,” as STRATCOM Chief, General John Hyten, put it. [4]

On December 1, 2017, Joint Functional Component Command for Space was inactivated, restructured and reorganized as Joint Force Space Component command under USSTRATCOM. [5]

Mission

According to Gen Shelton, "Our prime mission directive in JFCC SPACE is to ensure our freedom of action in space, while preventing adversary use of space against us." [1] To do this, the component optimizes planning, execution, and force management, as directed by the commander of USSTRATCOM, of the assigned missions of coordinating, planning, and conducting space operations. [6]

JFCC SPACE's responsibilities include the United States Space Surveillance Network. [7]

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Past Commanders

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References

  1. 1 2 Airman 1st Class Erica Stewart. "JFCC Space activates at Vandenberg". Vandenberg AFB public website. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2006.
  2. ↑ Joint space forces restructure, AFSPC commander becomes JFSCC, 4 Dec 2017
  3. ↑ "Biography of William L. Shelton". Air Force Link. Archived from the original on 6 December 2006. Retrieved 9 December 2006.
  4. ↑ Wilson Brissett, "JICSPOC Renamed National Space Defense Center," Air Force Magazine, (April 5, 2017), http://www.airforcemag.com/DRArchive/Pages/2017/April%202017/April%2005%202017/JICSPOC-Renamed-National-Space-Defense-Center.aspx
  5. ↑ AFSPC commander becomes JFSCC, joint space forces restructure
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 February 2007. Retrieved 7 January 2007.
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 August 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
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