Reoptimization for Great Power Competition

“I’m extremely proud of the Space Force and all the good it has accomplished. But, as good as we are, as much as we’ve done, as far as we’ve come, it’s not enough. We are not yet optimized for Great Power Competition.”

~ Chief of Space Operations
Gen. Chance Saltzman

The establishment of the U.S. Space Force was a direct response to threats arising from Great Power Competition in the space domain. Nevertheless, our legacy roots leave us sub-optimized for the security environment confronting us today, and we must finish fine-tuning the service to continue meeting its National Defense Strategy responsibilities

In early 2024, the Department of the Air Force unveiled sweeping plans for reshaping, refocusing, and reoptimizing the Air Force and Space Force to ensure continued supremacy in their respective domains while better posturing the services to deter and, if necessary, prevail in an era of Great Power Competition. Through a series of 24 DAF-wide key decisions, four core areas which demand the Department’s attention will be addressed: Develop People, Generate Readiness, Project Power and Develop Capabilities.

The space domain is no longer benign; it has rapidly become congested and contested.

We must enhance our capabilities, develop Guardians for modern warfare, prepare for the high intensity fight, and strengthen our power projection to thrive and win in this new era of Great Power Competition.

Video by Hunter Rhoades

2024 H2F Symposium Break Out Session: Spiritual Performance An Essential and Measurable Domain for Human Performance Optimization

U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training

May 1, 2024 | 25:59

Spirituality is notoriously difficult to measure and even more difficult to coach/mentor across the pluralistic environment of the U.S. Army within the H2F paradigm. This is mostly because there are limited validated and reliable metrics available to professionals within the spiritual domain. The Spiritual Performance Matrix is a recently validated instrument that is specifically designed for the human performance context. It provides UMTs, commanders, and Soldiers with a short, reliable, valid tool that can be taken, scored, and provide feedback in minutes for the individual with actionable results to improve in this vital H2F domain. The simplicity of the tool requires limited training on how to implement and the supporting spiritual performance categories for training enable the administrator to quickly provide actionable training plans for spiritual performance growth.

This presentation will focus on understanding the spiritual domain from a different perspective, namely from a spiritual performance context, and demonstrate how the Spiritual Performance Matrix can enhance an individual’s spiritual readiness, fitness, and overall human performance. Developing spiritual fitness training is challenging, especially when UMTs do not have clear direction or guidance on gaps in performance. The SPM provides UMTs with greater situational awareness to accompany their qualitative spiritual performance assessments (such as battlefield circulation, counseling statistics, general observation, etc.) to design targeted training to increase the organization’s spiritual performance and overall human performance. When aggregated at the unit level, data from the SPM enables commanders to better understand the spiritual performance of their unit within the H2F and human performance program.