The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the U.S. Department of Defense, established in December 2019. Its primary role is to organize, train, and equip space forces to protect U.S. and allied interests in space by ensuring space superiority. The USSF manages space launch operations, satellite operations, space environment surveillance, and satellite defense, and partners with organizations like NASA on space domain awareness and planetary defense. Key areas of focus include missile warning, satellite communications, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.
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United Launch Alliance received $224,200,000 for two missions named USSF-112 and USSF-87.
The Space Force awarded the first three Phase 2 missions in August that were scheduled to launch in 2022.
The Pentagon announced the Space Force awards on 2021-03-09.
The $500,000,000 contract is intended to fill critical analysis gaps in acquisitions and increase the rigor of Space Force, Air Force, Army, Navy, and other Department of Defense resourcing decisions.
LinQuest received a $200,000,000 contract last month for advisory and support services for the Space Force’s Space Operations Command headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base.
LinQuest Corp. was awarded a $500,000,000 contract by the U.S. Space Force on 2021-01-04 for analysis work over five years.
The Sounding Rocket Program-4 is managed by the Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center small launch and targets division at Kirtland Air Force Base.
The White House has stated its full support for the Space Force, indicating that it is an issue of national security.
The U.S. Space Force and the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise launched an experimental research payload for the Air Force Research Laboratory aboard a Terrier-Terrier-Oriole sounding rocket on 2021-03-03.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that the Biden administration fully supports the Space Force and will not revisit the decision to establish it.
Gen. John Raymond compared the Space Force's role to that of other military services, emphasizing that every domain of warfare requires a dedicated service.
Gen. John Raymond stated that the establishment of the Space Force has already started to pay great dividends for the United States.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond expressed appreciation for the president's support for the Space Force during a virtual National Press Club event on March 3.
The Space Force was enacted into law on December 20, 2019, with bipartisan support from Congress.
NOAA arranged the Argos-4 hosted payload launch through the Hosted Payload Solutions contract vehicle managed by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center.
L3Harris Technologies was awarded $89,000,000 for option-year two of a U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command MOSSAIC contract to continue maintaining and modernizing infrastructure to track objects in space.
The Space Force decided on 2021-01-29 to adopt most of the U.S. Air Force ranks for officers and enlisted personnel.
The contract to launch the Argos-4 payload was awarded to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center under a Hosted Payload Solutions delivery order on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The U.S. Space Force does not operate and is not developing capabilities specifically to monitor climate change and will continue to work with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on weather surveillance needs.
Millennium Engineering and Integration received a $13,200,000 award from the U.S. Space Force on 2021-02-19 for services in support of the certification of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket.