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Mission Areas
A mission area is a defined operational problem. Each one maps to the technologies that address it, the programs that fund it, and the organizations that participate.
22 MISSION AREAS
MISSION
DESCRIPTION
ORGS
PROGRAMS
TECH
LAST REVIEWED
Air & Missile Defense
Air & Missile Defense (AMD) is the integrated mission of detecting, tracking, and defeating manned aircraft, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and hyperso…
35
1
5
23 JUL 2026
Amphibious Operations
Force projection from sea to shore into contested environments — connectors, well-decks, littoral maneuver, and the naval fires that enable landing.
0
1
2
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Anti-Submarine Warfare
Detection, localization, tracking, and prosecution of hostile submarines using surface, sub-surface, air, and space assets.
4
0
3
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Border Security
Border Security is the mission of persistent detection, identification, tracking, and interdiction of unauthorized crossings along US land and maritime borde…
1
0
4
23 JUL 2026
Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear Defense
CBRN Defense is the mission of detecting, identifying, warning against, decontaminating from, and providing medical countermeasures to chemical, biological, …
8
0
3
23 JUL 2026
Counter-UAS
Counter-UAS is the mission of detecting, identifying, tracking, and defeating unauthorized or hostile unmanned aircraft. Operations combine layered sensing —…
55
1
6
23 JUL 2026
Cyberspace Operations
Cyberspace Operations is the mission of defending friendly networks (DCO), assuring the operation of the DoD Information Network (DODIN Ops), and holding adv…
16
0
3
23 JUL 2026
Electronic Warfare
Electronic Warfare (EW) is the mission of attacking, protecting, and supporting operations in the electromagnetic spectrum — jamming adversary communications…
191
0
4
23 JUL 2026
Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance
Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) is the mission of collecting, processing, exploiting, and disseminating information about adversaries, thre…
10
0
4
23 JUL 2026
Logistics
Sustainment of forces — prepositioning, contract logistics, strategic lift, medical evacuation, and the digital layer that coordinates all of it. Includes co…
1
0
3
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Maritime Domain Awareness
Persistent understanding of what's happening on and under the sea — commercial traffic, illicit activity, adversary naval forces — across US and allied waters.
4
0
4
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Missile Warning
Missile Warning is the mission of detecting, tracking, and characterizing ballistic missile, hypersonic glide vehicle, and cruise missile launches in near-re…
6
0
3
23 JUL 2026
Naval Fleet Sustainment
Design, construction, repair, and lifecycle sustainment of surface combatants, submarines, and auxiliaries — the industrial-base objective that keeps the fle…
52
0
2
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On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly & Manufacturing
OSAM — refueling, repair, inspection, tug, and construction operations conducted on orbit. Extends satellite lifetimes and enables new space architectures.
0
0
4
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Position, Navigation & Timing
Position, Navigation & Timing (PNT) is the mission of delivering assured location, navigation, and precise time signals to military and civil users, especial…
1
0
3
23 JUL 2026
Precision Strike
Precision Strike is the mission of delivering discriminate long-range kinetic effects against high-value targets at speed of relevance, across contested dist…
32
1
4
23 JUL 2026
Satellite Communications
Resilient, protected, and secure communications for military users via space-based relays — from wideband to protected tactical (PTS) to narrowband survivable.
3
0
3
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Search & Rescue
Recovery of isolated personnel — combat search and rescue (CSAR), civil SAR, personnel recovery — across all domains.
0
0
3
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Space Access
Reliable, responsive, and increasingly reusable launch to orbit — from small-lift to heavy-lift, including responsive launch for tactical reconstitution.
3
0
3
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Space Domain Awareness
Space Domain Awareness (SDA) is the mission of detecting, tracking, characterizing, and predicting the behavior of every object in the space domain — from lo…
5
0
4
23 JUL 2026
Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses
Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) is the mission of degrading, neutralizing, or destroying adversary integrated air defense systems (IADS) — surface-t…
0
0
3
23 JUL 2026
Undersea Warfare
Broader than ASW — includes seabed infrastructure protection, undersea sensor networks, mine warfare, and undersea comms.
6
0
4
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