ORS

The mission of the ORS Office is to plan and prepare for the rapid development of highly responsive space capabilities that enable delivery of timely warfighting effects and, when directed, develop and support deployment and operations of these capabilities to enhance and assure support to Joint Force Commanders’ and other users’ needs for on-demand space support, augmentation, and reconstitution.

The ORS Office is tasked with establishing the ability to provide rapid end-to-end capability efforts to meet urgent operational needs of the Joint Force Commanders (JFC). The ORS Office plans to stand up this capability over time with a phased “crawl,” “walk,” “run” approach.

Responsiveness is defined in terms of Tiers. These tiers are distinguished by the length of time required to deliver ORS capabilities. Achieving these timelines are an important goal as the ORS program matures:

• Tier 1: EMPLOY- On-demand use of existing deployed assets in applications that may extend or expand their original purpose. The objective of Tier 1 is to deliver these capabilities within minutes to hours. Other elements of the National Security Space (NSS) community have the primary responsibility for identifying and executing Tier 1 initiatives.
• Tier 2: DEPLOY- Deploying new or additional capabilities that are field-ready;that is, already produced. The objective of Tier 2 is to deliver capabilities within days to weeks.
• Tier 3: DEVELOP- The rapid development, delivery, and employment of a new capability. The objective of Tier 3 is to deliver capabilities within months and less than one year. The ORS Tier 3 strategy comprises the primary office activity focused on maturing the ORS enabling elements.

Anticipated initial mission types include:

LEO (Low earth orbit):

• Tactical Surveillance
  • Electro-Optical Visible/Near Infrared Imager (EO/VNIR)
  • EO/Shortwave-Infrared Imager (EO/SWIR)
  • Hyperspectral Imager (HSI)
  • Deep Space Object Search and Track (DS SSA)
  • Synthetic aperture radar
• Space Situational Awareness
• Space Protection

• Tactical communications
  • SATCOM
  • Blue Force Tracking (BFT)
• Tactical Surveillance
  • Kinetic event detection battlespace awareness
• Space Situational Awareness
• Space Protection