Air Force
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Intelligence CommunityNGA Marks End of Wet Film Processing, But Decades of Use Illustrate “Enormity of Our Tasking”
This summer, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) moved to all digital imagery after the agency finished the June processing of the final two miles of wet film from the KA-80 […]
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SpaceAirbus and Northrop Grumman Ink MOU on SKYNET 6 Development
Airbus and Northrop Grumman [NOC] have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop the United Kingdom’s future SKYNET 6 military satellite wideband communications system, Airbus said on Oct. 22. […]
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SpaceSpace Domain Awareness Sustainment Contracts Awarded to L3Harris
L3Harris Technologies [LHX] said that it has received two contracts worth up to $134 million under the U.S. Space Force’s Maintenance of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program. Under […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Examining Industry Capacity to Build Small Communications Satellites for GEO
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) is to examine industry capacity to build small, “highly maneuverable” geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) communications satellites having a power level of three kilowatts […]
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SpaceSaltzman: Proliferated LEO Shows Mettle in Ukraine
Proliferated low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations for communications and other uses are demonstrating that they can endure and adapt to adversary assaults, such as jamming, the head of U.S. Space […]
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Heralds BACN Support Awards from USAF
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Oct. 17 that the U.S. Air Force has chosen the company to support E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) aircraft at their first base in […]
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SpaceU.S. Air Force Examining Complementary Positioning, Navigation and Timing Systems
To help counter disruption of the Global Positioning System (GPS), the U.S. Air Force is examining whether to buy complementary Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems. The service is “seeking […]
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SpaceBlackSky to Develop Automated Target Recognition Under AFWERX Contract
BlackSky Technology [BKSY] said on Oct. 16 that it has won a Space Development Agency contract through the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s AFWERX innovation arm to help track forces […]
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Air ForceBoeing and Kratos’ MDI Sign MOU for Powered JDAM
Kratos‘ [KTOS] Michigan-based Technical Directions, Inc. (TDI) business unit within the company’s unmanned systems division said that it has agreed with Boeing [BA] to develop and field the TDI-J85 turbine […]
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Air ForceKC-46A Program Waiting on FAA Certification of RVS 2.0 Cameras by End of 2023 to Close CDR
The KC-46A system program office at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio said that it is awaiting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification of commercial cameras on the Boeing [BA] tanker’s Remote Vision System […]