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National Space Defense Center
Seal of the National Space Defense Center
Founded	1 October 2015; 9 years, 3 months
Country	United States
Role	Space defense
Part of	Joint Task Force–Space Defense
Headquarters	Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, U.S.
Commanders
Director	Col Stephen G. Lyon
Deputy Director	Col Matthew P. Bruno
Senior Enlisted Leader	SMSgt Kion F. Shaw
Insignia
Space Delta 15

The National Space Defense Center (NSDC) is a subordinate center of United States Space Command's Joint Task Force–Space Defense. It is responsible for coordinating military, intelligence, civil, and commercial space for unified space defense operations. The NSDC is located at Schriever Space Force Base, outside of Colorado Springs.

Mission

The National Space Defense Center integrates Department of Defense, multiple agencies, and Intelligence Community personnel and authorities to enable unified space defense. The National Space Defense Center executes mission orders received from the joint space tasking order (JSTO) and NRO space tasking order.

History

Initially established as the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSpOC) on 1 October 2015, it was intended to improve processes and procedures, ensuring data fusion among DoD, intelligence community, interagency, allied and commercial space entities.

On 1 April 2017, the JICSpOC was renamed the National Space Defense Center, to better clarify its role and eliminate confusion with the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC).

On 9 July 2019, the NSDC dedicated its operations floor and a warfighter library to Senior Master Sergeant Harold Robert Mosley II. Mosley was the NSDC's Senior Enlisted Leader in 2018. He died on 23 November 2018 in a rock climbing accident.

List of commanders

No.	Commander		Term			Ref
	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Duration
1		Colonel Todd Brost	1 October 2015	6 September 2018	6 years, 263 days
2		Colonel Mitchell D. Stratton	6 September 2018	August 2020	~1 year, 344 days
3		Colonel Scott D. Brodeur	August 2020	August 2020	~1 year, 330 days
4		Colonel Stephen G. Lyon	11 July 2022	Incumbent	~2 years, 204 days

See also

• Combined Space Operations Center

References

1. ^ "New Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center to be establish". U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.
2. "Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs visits NSDC".
3. "Space Operations" (PDF). www.jcs.mil. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
4. "The JICSpOC is dead; Long live the National Space Defense Center". SpaceNews.com. 4 April 2017.
5. "(Archived) Schriever Space Force Base > Home".
6. "Senior enlisted leader at space center dies while rock climbing". 27 November 2018.
7. ^ "NSDC welcomes new leadership".
8. "NSDC gains new director". Joint Task Force-Space Defense.

v t e United States Space Command
Subordinate organizations	Combined Force Space Component Command Combined Space Operations Center Missile Warning Center Joint Overhead Persistent Infrared Center Joint Navigation Warfare Center Joint Task Force–Space Defense National Space Defense Center
Service component commands	Space and Missile Defense Command (land) Marine Corps Forces Space Command (Marine Corps) Navy Space Command (maritime) First Air Force (air) United States Space Forces – Space (space) Joint Force Headquarters-Cyber Air Force (cyber)
Former service component commands	Naval Space Command Air Force Space Command Fourteenth Air Force

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