The Ohio State University has been selected for full membership in the U.S. Space Command's (USSPACECOM) Academic Engagement Enterprise.
USSPACECOM’s Academic Engagement Enterprise is designed to strengthen collaboration between U.S. Space Command and leading academic institutions, ensuring that the nation’s most pressing challenges in space and cyberspace are met with cutting-edge research, innovation, and talent development.
As part of the Academic Engagement Enterprise, Ohio State will collaborate with USSPACECOM and peer institutions to:
- Shape the future workforce by creating a robust pool of qualified space professionals for military and civilian work roles within the Space Mission Force.
- Increase space applied research and innovation with cutting-edge research to better understand technical and non-technical (policy, law, threat trends) options, problems, solutions, and innovation opportunities.
- Expand space-focused academic partnerships through exchanges and directed research to foster unique competencies, capacities, and expertise that will provide insight into adversaries' cyberspace activities
- Enrich strategic space dialogue by informing academic institutions of the command’s roles, authorities, key issues and responsibilities in national security and space operations.
"Ohio State’s selection reflects our longstanding commitment to advancing research and education in space and defense-related systems and operation research," John M. Horack, vice president for research at Ohio State. "Joining this distinguished network allows our faculty, staff and students to contribute directly to national security priorities while expanding opportunities for groundbreaking discoveries and workforce development."
Ohio State’s inclusion in USSPACECOM's Academic Engagement Enterprise underscores the university’s role as a national leader in interdisciplinary space research and its commitment to making positive impacts through discovery, innovation, and education.