Space Force aims to build out requirements for digital training environment in 2026

One of the biggest goals in 2026 for the Space Force’s Program Executive Office for Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (PEO OTTI) is to create the final requirements for its main training domain to ultimately become available at the unit level across the Space Force enterprise, according to the head of the program.

Over the next 10-12 months, Col. Corey Klopstein is focused on building out the requirements for the Space Warfighter Operational Readiness Domain (SWORD) program, a “distributed” digital training environment used to prepare guardians for space warfare, he told reporters Monday. Initially used by the 392nd Combat Training Squadron in Delta 11, Klopstein said he’d like SWORD to become the right synthetic environment for whole units across the Space Force’s enterprise domain.

“We now want to expand it for the enterprise. We want to make it higher fidelity. We want to make it more accurate. We want to bring more types of systems into it. We want to make that cloud based. We want to raise it to the SAP [special access program] level, so that we can bring in some of our classified systems,” Klopstein, who is dual-hatted as commander of the Space Force’s new System Delta 81 organization, said. “We want to make it accessible from wherever our units are.” 

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