The U.S. Space Force has revealed that it aims to develop and utilize a more advanced Swarm digital training platform by the end of 2025 to enhance the service branch’s readiness in the face of escalating threats to national space capabilities posed by China and Russia, Defense News reported Saturday.
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What Is Swarm?
Swarm is a training tool the Space Force is developing and utilizing to provide Guardians with enhanced tactical training exercises. The digital training platform is designed to simulate adversarial scenarios and various capabilities of U.S. and allied forces, enabling operators to train against enemy tactics and use realistic Space Force systems.
Planned Swarm Enhancements
The Space Force will prioritize further developing its current simulators to address training and tactics development needs. It will leverage existing and new systems for now, but the ultimate goal is to build a comprehensive virtual training infrastructure. The Space Training and Readiness Command, or STARCOM, aims to shift Swarm to a cloud environment within the next two years, enabling operators in different geographies to conduct training together.
The service branch has requested a budget of $141 million to develop a National Test and Training Complex that will host virtual technologies for basic and advanced training. In addition, Space Force is ensuring that program offices developing satellites and ground systems will prioritize training requirements.
Maj. Gen. Tim Sejba, STARCOM commander, said, “This is basically a digital environment at various classification levels that is going to allow us to be able to provide a red threat. We’re bringing units together at Space Flag already and executing within that digital environment.”
