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What does OCS stand for?

Offensive Counterspace


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Ensures space superiority by conducting space situational awareness, defensive counterspace and offensive counterspace operations.
3) The greatest impact occurs when the enemy has offensive counterspace (OCS) capabilities and the United States uses responsive launch vehicles and satellite systems to maintain on- orbit capabilities.
The conventional offensive counterspace capability to negate enemy use of space consists of physical attacks against a terrestrial node.
Ensuring and denying the use of the space medium require a robust counterspace architecture: space situational awareness (SSA) with corresponding defensive/ offensive counterspace (DCS/OCS) means to protect space interests (fig.
1, offensive counterspace (OCS) operations "deceive, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy adversary space capabilities" at a time and place of our choosing through attacks on the space systems, terrestrial systems, links, or third-party space capabilities (2).
Offensive counterspace (OCS) operations deny, degrade, disrupt, destroy, or deceive ("the five Ds") an adversary's space capability.
3) Both AFDD 1 and AFDD 2-2, Space Operations, the Air Force's space doctrine, note two subtasks within the counterspace mission: offensive counterspace (OCS) and defensive counterspace (DCS).

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