Lift-off for first targeting squadron dedicated to US space missions

The 75th ISRS has three primary mission focuses: target analysis, target development, and target engagement.

The squadron will prepare and present intelligence packages about a target and the system it is a part of, such as satellites, ground stations or the signal in between.

Master Sergeant Desiree Cabrera, 75th ISRS operations superintendent, said the new squadron is the first and only targeting unit dedicated to supporting the US Space Force and its missions.

“Over the past year, the senior enlisted leader, Senior Master Sergeant Cristy Duncan, along with the first assigned members of the targeting team, led Space Delta 7’s Operating Location-Bravo using an innovative approach to build the foundation and organisational structure of today’s 75th ISRS,” said MSgt Cabrera.

“Not only are we standing up the sole targeting squadron in the US Space Force, we are changing the way targeting is done across the joint community when it comes to space and electromagnetic warfare.”

During the activation ceremony on 11 August, US Space Force DEL 7 commander Colonel Brett Swigert presented 75th ISRS’s first commander Lieutenant Colonel Travis Anderson with the ceremonial guidon, representing the first assignment of authority from the delta commander.

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“Today is a monumental time in the history of our service,” said Anderson.

“The idea of this unit began four years ago on paper and has probably been in the minds of several US Air Force intelligence officers even longer.

“The 75th ISRS conducts advanced analysis on adversary space force and counterspace force threats along with their associated architectures.

“Space forces are space capabilities used by a country to facilitate their joint warfighting. Counterspace forces, also called space attack forces, are space capabilities designed to deny the United States the ability to use our satellite systems during conflict.”

Robert Dougherty

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