The Administration’s 2006 defense supplemental request also includes nearly $15 million to enhance AC-130 gunships and EC-130 Compass Call for the global war on terror. The Air Force plans to add an advanced signal processing system, called Senior Scout, to provide real-time processing of target data and enhanced traffic alert and collision avoidance systems to its gunships. For the EC-130 electronic warfare aircraft, USAF wants to buy two more improvised explosive device “defeat capability kits” for operations in Southwest Asia.
After years of describing to lawmakers and Pentagon leaders the nature of that threat and the key role spacepower plays in deterring conflict in the domain and enabling the rest of the joint force, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters during AFA’s Warfare Symposium here that the message appears to…