A dramatic reduction in launch costs and the integration of ever advancing commercial space and allied space capabilities have led to a greater acceptance of risk by U.S. Space Force in developing new systems, a top U.S. Space Force official said on May 18. “In the early 2000s, the cost of ...
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LOS ANGELES — Frank Turner, technical director of the Space Development Agency (SDA), is a man with a lot of problems, and he doesn’t mind talking about them. “I’m not standing here today giving you answers,” he told an audience of satellite industry executives at the CyberLEO ...
CACI International Inc demonstrated space-to-space optical communications links in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) as part of the Mandrake II mission. CACI announced the tests Tuesday, in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Space Development Agency (SDA). ...
The U.S. Space Force is assessing whether to recommend the creation of a Space National Guard or the formation of a combined active duty and Reserve component that has members of the Air National Guard. Since 2020, Space Force has said that 1,500 of its members are members of the Army and Air ...
LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Space Force is offering free, non-attributable cybersecurity supply chain and vulnerability scanning services to both its commercial vendors and to other government agencies, Col. Jennifer Krolikowski, the chief information officer for Space Systems Command (SSC), ...
A new Pentagon Inspector General (IG) report concluded that a Department of the Air Force decision in January 2021 to move U.S. Space Command headquarters from its temporary headquarters at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo., to Redstone Arsenal, Ala., was above board, but the IG report is heavily ...