Frank Wolfe
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Space
Minotaur IV Used for NRO Mission from Vandenberg
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Launch Delta 30, and USSF Space Systems Command’s small launch and targets division launched defense and intelligence payloads aboard NROL-174 […]
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Air Force
USAF Offensive sUAS Program Surveys Industry for Multi-Domain Comms for Drone Swarms
The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Offensive Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) program (AFLCMC/WISS) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio wants to hear from companies able to integrate low size, […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Sentinel To Have New Silos, Air Force Leaders Tell Town Halls
The Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM, which has a significantly larger design than its predecessor 1960s-era Minuteman missile series, is to have new silos, U.S. Air Force leaders told community […]
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Air Force
SSC Official Says TacSRT Has Received COCOM Support
Combatant commands (COCOMs) have voiced support for U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Tactical, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Tracking (TacSRT) program, an SSC official said. The full-year FY 2025 Continuing […]
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Pentagon
Executive Order: Commercial Contracts, Other Transactions to Be DoD Default
While non-commercial Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) will continue, a Wednesday executive order from President Donald Trump states that commercial contracts will be the default for DoD. Within two months, […]
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Navy/USMC
Counter-C5ISR and Long Range Fires Top of Paparo’s List to Deter China
To deter China, long-range fires and counter command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C5ISR) are top priorities for U.S. Navy Adm. Samuel Paparo, the head of U.S. […]
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Air Force
Trump Administration Support for Nuclear Triad May Lead to Sentinel Reprieve
President Donald Trump’s Wednesday executive order, Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base, speaks of cancellations of Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) that are 15 percent […]
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Missile Defense
LRDR to Enter Operational Test This Summer
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to conduct operational testing of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) this summer and quickly move it to Space Force for […]
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Space
Space Force Looking to Promote CIC Data Sharing with NRO
The U.S. Space Force is looking to increase data sharing among the service’s Commercial Integration Cell (CIC) and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) commercial contractors. The number of companies in the […]
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Air Force
U.S. Air Force Receives First TPY-4 for Testing
The U.S. Air Force has received the first TPY-4 radar from Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Syracuse site under the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR) program after the completion of early phase […]