United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command

The SMDC is made up of several components, Active Army and full-time Army National Guard, due to the 24-hour a day, 7-day a week, 365-day a year nature of SMDC's mission:[4]

• U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) Headquarters and the Force Development Integration Center co-located with the Missile Defense Agency on Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
• U.S. Army SMDC/ARSTRAT [4] satellite site located on Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • 1st Space Brigade,[2][5] Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado
    • 1st Space Battalion[6][7]
    • 2nd Space Battalion[8]
  • 100th Missile Defense Brigade (GMD),[9] Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado
    • 49th Missile Defense Battalion,[10] Alaska Army National Guard, Fort Greely, Alaska
  • Satellite Operations Brigade[11] is transferring to the Space Force[12]
    • 53rd Signal Battalion (SATCON) becoming 53rd Space Operations Squadron, USSF; mission transfer under way August 15, 2022[13]
    • Satellite Communications Directorate
• Space and Missile Defense Technical Center (SMDTC)
• Space and Missile Defense Battle Lab (SMDBL)[14]

The 117th Space Battalion has a training, readiness, and oversight (TRO) relationship with the 1st Space Brigade but is not actually part of it, as of 2018–19.

• Technical Center, based in Huntsville, Alabama;
  • U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll/Reagan Test Site (USAKA/RTS), in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and at Wake Island
  • High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF), at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Space and Missile Defense Acquisition Center (SMDAC)

• • other directorates

Design work for the Safeguard System anti-ballistic missile complex began in 1968. The initial ground breaking occurred in 1970. The test period began in September 1973 and concluded with the equipment readiness date. Four and half years after the initial contracts were signed, the completed facility was turned over to the government. On 27 September 1974, at the Missile Site Radar Complex near Nekoma, North Dakota, and at the Ballistic Missile Defense Center at NORAD, Cheyenne Mountain, the Safeguard facilities were officially transferred to the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Defense Systems Command after a four and a half year construction project by ten companies.[15]

Previously the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensors Project Office (JLENS) based in Huntsville, Alabama[16] was part of SMDC's Space and Missile Defence Acquisition Center. However, after continuing problems with the programme, the fiscal 2017 budget for the JLENS program was cut from the requested $45 million to $2.5 million. According to Defense News, the "nearly unanimous lack of funding for the program spells death for JLENS". The blimps are being kept in storage and the small budget being used to close out the program, according to Defense News.[17]

Other parts of the previous Space and Missile Defense Acquisition Center included:

• High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF), at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
• Army Space Program Office (ASPO) in Alexandria, Virginia
• Ballistic Missile Targets Joint Project Office (BMTJPO) based in Huntsville, Alabama

The United States Army Futures Command, formed 24 August 2018, gives priority to modernization of air and missile defense.[18]^{: minute 6:07}[19][20][21] Cross-functional teams[22][23] were instituted to oversee the modernization effort[24][25] in the areas of hypersonic systems,[26][27][28] maneuver SHORAD (M-SHORAD)[29] and Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS).[30]

• Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense

Comparable organizations

• Naval Network Warfare Command (U.S. Navy)
• Space Operations Command (U.S. Space Force)

• Official website
• "Army Space & Missile Defense Command". GlobalSecurity.org.
• Future Warfare Preparation: US Army Space & Missile Defense Command – animated dramatization of various missile defense scenarios (YouTube video made by Delta Research Inc for SMDC)