Advanced Systems and Development Directorate

The Advanced Systems and Development Directorate is a directorate of the Space and Missile Systems Center. They are co-located at Los Angeles AFB, California and Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.^[1]

Mission

The premier organization for advanced systems and development planning to evolve and implement new affordable and resilient architectures for future Space capabilities through analytical rigor, collaborative innovation, requirements analysis, concept development, and demonstrations. Serves as primary provider of launch, spaceflight, hosted payloads and on-orbit operations for the entire DoD space research and development community. Responsible for acquiring, integrating, launching, and operating R&D spacecraft, prototype operational systems, boosters, and ballistic missiles supporting national security objectives/missile defense programs.

History

The Space Development and Test Wing was activated 1 August 2006. Prior to that, Detachment 12 of the Space and Missile Systems Center had been activated at Kirtland AFB 29 June 2001, taking responsibility for research, developmental test and evaluation organizations that had been co-located at Kirtland AFB alongside the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles and Directed Energy Directorates.

Lineage
- Detachment 2, Space and Missile Systems Center, Onizuka AS, CA
- SMC, Test and Evaluation Direcorate, Kirtland AFB, NM
- Detachment 12, Space and Missile Systems Center, Kirtland AFB, NM (activated 29 June 2001)
- Space Development and Test Wing, Kirtland AFB, NM (activated 1 Aug 2006)
- Advanced Systems and Development Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM^[2]

Past Directors and Commanders
- Craig Martin, Colonel, USAF (retired)
- James Ford, Colonel, USAF (retired)
- Ralph Monfort, Colonel, USAF (retired)

Notes and References

↑ Fact Sheet: Advanced Systems and Development Directorate, 27 March 2015. http://www.kirtland.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=18511
↑ "SMC stands up new Advanced Systems and Development Directorate, 24 Nov 2014. http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/554895/smc-stands-up-new-advanced-systems-and-development-directorate.aspx

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United States Air Force

Leadership

Structure

Commands	Reserve Air National Guard Field Operating Agencies Installations

Direct Reporting Units	District of Washington Operational Test and Evaluation Center USAF Academy

Major Commands	Air Combat Air Education and Training Air Mobility Global Strike Materiel Reserve Space Special Operations Europe & Africa Pacific

Numbered Air Forces	First Second Third Fourth Fifth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Seventeenth Eighteenth Nineteenth Twentieth Twenty-Second Twenty-Third Twenty-Fourth Twenty-Fifth

Wings (ANG) Groups (ANG) Squadrons (ANG) Civilian auxiliary: Civil Air Patrol

Personnel and
training

Uniforms and
equipment

History and
traditions

Category
Portal

Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)

Air Forces	Fourteenth Twenty-Fourth

Centers	Space and Missile Systems Space Innovation and Development 614th Air and Space Operations 624th Operations Air Force Network Integration

Bases	Buckley Los Angeles Patrick Peterson Schriever Thule Vandenberg

Stations	Cape Canaveral Cape Cod Cavalier Cheyenne Mountain Clear Eldorado (closed) Kaena Point New Boston Onizuka (closed)

Wings

Combat Communications	689th

Information Operations	688th

Network Warfare	67th

Space	21st 30th 45th 50th 310th 460th

Groups

Air Base	61st

Combat Communications	3d 5th 201st 226th 254th 281st

Cyberspace Engineering Installation	38th

Information Operations	318th

Network Operations	26th

Network Support	690th

Network Warfare	67th

Squadrons

Combat Communications	3d 5th 23d 31st 32d 33d 34th 35th 42d 51st 52d 53d 54th 55th 147th 221st 232d 236th 239th 242d 263d 264th 265th 267th 269th 271st 282d 283d 291st 292d 293d

Command and Control	1st 2d 3d 4th 55th Mobile 119th 153d 222d 721st Mobile

Space Control	1st 4th 16th 20th 25th 76th 380th

Space Launch	1st 2d 3d 4th 5th

Space Operations	1st 2d 3d 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 19th 21st 22d 23d 111th 148th AFSPC

Space Warning	2d 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 137th 213th

Others	26th Space Aggressor (AFRC) 527th Space Aggressor (ACC) 3d Space Communications 50th Space Communications 850th Space Communications 1st Space Development 2d Space Development 3d Space Development 3d Space Experimentation 1st Space Surveillance 3d Space Surveillance 5th Space Surveillance 1st Air and Space Test 2d Test Operations 3d Space Test 4th Space Test 55th Space Weather

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