Air Force

While the U.S. Space Force is interested in alternate positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems to alleviate the risk of an adversary or other disruption of GPS, the service’s tactically […]

The U.S. Air Force Test Center (AFTC) at Edwards AFB, Calif., said that it plans to award Alexandria, Va.-based Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. a contract to provide an Identification Friend […]

The Pentagon is interested in leveraging industry work on concepts for refueling satellites in space, a DoD official said on Jan. 17. The concept of dynamic space operations is “realistic […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Jan. 16 that it has conducted a live, static-fire test of a stage-two solid rocket motor (SRM) for the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile at […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) said on Jan. 16 that it has awarded contracts worth up to $2.5 billion to three companies for 54 infrared sensor-equipped satellites […]

NASA and Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Skunk Works division on Jan. 12 rolled out the X-59 “quiet” supersonic demonstrator aircraft in Palmdale, Calif. “The ceremony marked a significant milestone in Lockheed […]

Robert Peters, the former chief of strategic trends and effects for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) from 2019 to 2022, argues that some of the future Northrop Grumman [NOC] […]

Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] on Jan. 11 heralded last September’s signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) by the Australia, United Kingdom, U.S. (AUKUS) alliance on the company’s Deep Space Advanced […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) wants a ground segment integrator for the agency’s future Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA)–a network of optically-linked satellites in low Earth orbit […]

Firehawk Aerospace, a Texas-based startup that bills itself as a propulsion solutions company, in the past two weeks has announced two separate awards from the Army and Air Force to […]