The Air Force this week released two requests for information related to the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications (ESS) program that will eventually replace the service’s current Advanced EHF (AEHF) satellite constellation. Both notices were posted April 23 to FedBizOpps, with one related ...

The Air Force has awarded Boeing [BA] a not-to-exceed $605 million firm-fixed price contract modification to build one additional Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite, according to an April 19 announcement. The new system would be the 11th WGS satellite in the constellation. Congress appropriated ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Citing overwhelming success at the first-ever Air Force Pitch Day in March, the service announced a second opportunity for companies to get on contract in minutes – but this time, it’s for space technology. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said April 9 at the 35th ...

Most members of the Senate Armed Services Committee sounded skeptical of the Pentagon’s proposal to create a new Space Force under the Air Force during a hearing Thursday. While Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, Chairman of the Joint Chief of ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Air Force officials provided some insight into the concept of space deterrence this week at the 35th annual Space Symposium here, as Pentagon leaders have ramped up rhetoric about the need to combat peer adversaries in the space domain. Outgoing Air Force Secretary ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Air Force Space Command expects to release this year a new strategy for the service’s future satellite communications architecture to address lawmakers’ longtime concerns about stove-piped capabilities and offer a more holistic, cost-effective solution, AFSPC leaders ...