Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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SpaceViasat Receives Up to $450 Million Contract for SDN-B Mission Operations Center
U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) said on Thursday that it has awarded an up to $450 million contract to Viasat [VSAT] for a Space Data Network-Backbone (SDN-B) Mission […]
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InternationalExecutive Branch Decisions on Ukraine Loom, Including New Starshield Contract and F-16 Upgrades
Executive branch decisions on Ukraine military aid lie ahead, including a new contract for SpaceX‘s [SPCX] Starshield military communications satellites and upgrades for Ukraine’s several dozen older F-16s by Lockheed […]
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Nuclear ModernizationTown Halls for USAF LGM-35A Sentinel to Restart This Month
Town halls to gather community input on the U.S. Air Force’s future LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM by Northrop Grumman [NOC] are to restart this month, as the service prepares a supplemental […]
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SpaceULA To Bring Payload Fairing Manufacturing for Vulcan In-House
Elon Musk’s SpaceX [SPCX] has made payload fairings for its rockets, including Falcon 9, at SpaceX’s Hawthorne, Calif. plant, and now competitor United Launch Alliance (ULA) is bringing its fairings […]
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PentagonFederal Watchdogs File Project Meridian Lawsuit
The two most prominent defense industry board members of the Pentagon’s Project Meridian are SpaceX [SPCX] founder and CEO Elon Musk and Anduril Industries‘ co-founder Palmer Luckey. A federal watchdogs’ […]
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SpaceDIU Looks to Award Deorbit Demonstration Contract Next Month
The Pentagon is to make a downselect decision next month for a company’s orbital demonstration under the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)/Space Development Agency (SDA) Deorbit-as-a-Service (DaaS) program after a preliminary […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Cislunar Space System Under Consideration
The Department of the Air Force is considering a future Cislunar Space System (CSS) and eyeing the award of up to five preliminary design study contracts for five CSS satellites. […]
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ArmyLeonardo DRS To Perform E-HEL Vehicle Integration and Power and Thermal Management Work
Leonardo DRS [DRS] is to perform ruggedized integration and power and thermal management work as a subcontractor to AeroVironment [AVAV] for the U.S. Army’s future Enduring-High Energy Laser (E-HEL). “DRS will […]
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International500 PAC-3 MSEs Approved by State Department For Ukraine A Nothing Burger, Zelenskyy Says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that the U.S. State Department’s approval of 500 Lockheed Martin [LMT] PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles for Ukraine would […]
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Air ForceUSAF Looks to Advance STITCHES With Upcoming Contract to Lockheed Martin
The U.S. Air Force is looking to award Lockheed Martin [LMT] a sole source contract to advance the System-of-Systems Technology Integration Tool Chain for Heterogeneous Electronic Systems (STITCHES). “The effort […]