Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceLatest Unarmed Minuteman III Test One of More Than 300 So Far, AFGSC Says
U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command and the U.S. Space Force’s 30th Space Launch Delta Guardians launched an unarmed Boeing [BA] Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) equipped with three […]
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SpaceSecond Slate of SDA Tranche 0 Satellites on Orbit
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lofted 13 satellites for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 0 effort into orbit on Sept. 2 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, […]
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SpaceLow Earth Orbit Communications Services ‘Not a Panacea’ for DoD, Hughes Official Says
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) is pursuing the Transport Layer of proliferated low Earth orbit satellites to reduce satellite data transmission times to military forces. Delays of […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Considering Hemisphere Solicitation to Consolidate Weapons Development/Sustainment
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) may issue a solicitation for a “Hemisphere” contract under which SSC could pursue five task orders for industry to aid SSC in weapons’ […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologySecond Launch of SDA Tranche 0 Satellites on Aug. 31 to Be Followed by Third Later This Year
Last November, Derek Tournear, the director of the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA), said that SDA was working to resolve delayed deliveries of microelectronics and space system components […]
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Air ForceMissteps Delay Rapid Fielding of USAF 3DELRR
Acquisition missteps are delaying the fielding of the U.S. Air Force Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR), a program that began in 2009 and that the Air Force designated a Middle […]
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Air ForceU.S. Space Force Awards SAIC Nearly $575 Million for Ground-Based Radar Sustainment
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command’s acquisitions branch at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo., has awarded Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] a nearly $575 million ground-based radar maintenance and sustainment […]
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InternationalAustralia Picks Lockheed Martin As ‘Strategic Partner’ for Joint Air Battle Management System
Australia has picked Lockheed Martin [LMT] over Northrop Grumman [NOC] as the “strategic partner” for the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) AIR6500-1 Joint Air Battle Management System (JABMS). JABMS is to […]
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SpaceNROL-107 Mission to Be Last Atlas V Launch for NRO
The Aug. 29 Cape Canaveral, Fla. launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 configuration rocket carrying sensing payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and U.S. Space […]
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Air ForceYear-Long AFSOC Operational Evaluation of Starlink ‘Nearly Complete’
The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command’s (AFSOC) 1st Special Operations Contracting Squadron is nearing the end of a year-long operational evaluation of the military effectiveness of SpaceX‘s Starlink low […]
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