The U.S. Space Force (USSF) expects to complete an analysis of alternatives (AoA) of space-based ground moving target indication (GMTI) late this spring–an effort that the service has undertaken with the intelligence community and the Pentagon Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation ( ...
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The Pentagon needs to accelerate efforts to build resilient satellite constellations to defend against anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons, such as the one tested by Russia last November, John Plumb, the nominee to become assistant secretary of defense for space policy, told the Senate Armed Services ...
The Space Development Agency (SDA) is building satellite operations centers at Grand Forks AFB, N.D., and Redstone Arsenal, Ala., as the agency prepares to issue a solicitation, possibly next week, to man those centers, SDA Director Derek Tournear said on Jan. 12. SDA is to award the contract for ...
The U.S. Space Force is facing an increased risk of launch problems at its eastern range at Patrick Space Force Base, Fla., and the western range at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., as the service expects to more than double its launches from 49 last year to 157 in 2027, the Pentagon Inspector ...
Through the Orbital Prime effort, the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) innovation arm–SpaceWERX–wants industry to submit innovative ideas by Feb. 17 for space debris mitigation and removal for objects as large as defunct satellites and as small as objects in the centimeter range. “ ...
Leidos [LDOS] on Thursday said it will make a strategic investment in HawkEye 360, a commercial provider of geospatial-intelligence (GEOINT) solutions based on radio frequency (RF) technology in a move Leidos said will improve its capabilities in national security space. HawkEye 360 said the $5 ...