What does BA stand for?

The Sbirs is being designed to provide early warning of missile launches, as well as supporting technical intelligence and battlespace awareness applications.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Through the planning and execution of space control, support, and force enhancement operations, the JFCC SPACE commander produces effects for combatant commanders, such as providing positioning, navigation, and timing for military and civil use; providing communications to remote locations beyond the line of sight of terrestrial communication systems; and supporting battlespace awareness and characterization through space systems.

Predictive methodologies will be applied within the greater context of battlespace awareness, yielding a fully integrated operations, intelligence, and logistics picture.

Joint Vision 2020 describes how information will enable dominant battlespace awareness as part of information superiority.

Tools that could provide a dispassionate assessment of the situation that could then provide predictive battlespace awareness.

Shared battlespace awareness, in the form of a common operational picture, would already be available to all players; in fact, they would have a degree of situational awareness not previously possible.

The DBC Program's ultimate objective is to extend visualization and display technologies and integrate them with emerging command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance concepts to evolve a system that provides dominant battlespace awareness.

In the mid-1990s, battlespace awareness depends, in large part, on space-based systems for collection and distribution.