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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The U.S. Space Force plans to start launching GPS 3F satellites in 2026.
Maj. Gen. Kimberly Crider is establishing a core set of knowledge and training activities that every member of the Space Force will be required to complete.
The U.S. Space Force was established in December 2019 as an independent military branch to handle emerging national security threats in orbit such as anti-satellite weapons.
The Space Force will recruit some officers through Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs at universities with a focus on STEM degrees.
With SBIR funding, NearSpace Launch is building ThinSats for NASA and the U.S. Space Force to serve as technology demonstrators.
More than 1,100 Space Force personnel have taken courses at Digital University.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Space Micro Inc. an STTR contract to enhance its Nanocom Software Defined Radio for new U.S. Space Force programs for smallsats.
BAE Systems received a $247,000,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to design and manufacture an advanced military GPS receiver and a next-generation semiconductor.
In a 2021-02-17 update, the U.S. Space Force will start a program for expanded space access, mobility, and logistics needs to further strengthen U.S. space dominance.
NASA’s 2020-03-01 mission launched on 2020-07-30, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Space mobility and logistics were included in a $90,000,000 research and development program that Congress directed in the U.S. Space Force 2021 budget.
The contract is the first enterprise contract awarded that allows the U.S. Space Force and other space analysis organizations to establish task orders promoting synergies and unity of effort.
The U.S. Space Force is charged with organizing, training, and equipping space forces to protect United States and allied interests in space and to provide space capabilities to the joint force.
On 2021-02-17, BAE Systems won the largest share of a $552,000,000 Space Force contract awarded in November to three companies to design and manufacture advanced GPS receivers that provide positioning, navigation, and timing to U.S. military forces.
LinQuest will expand support across its lines of business to the U.S. Space Force and the broader space community under the new contract.
LinQuest was awarded a $500 million, 5-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to provide analysis support to the U.S. Space Force.
U.S. Space Force awarded LinQuest Corp. a $200,000,000 contract for advisory and support services for Space Operations Command.
Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman addressed the Blue Marble Strategic Space conference on 2021-02-09 about the need for the Space Force to advocate for new resources and build its budget.
On 2021-02-03, Gen. John Raymond traveled to Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, to discuss the role of space in global operations and to support Space Force integration efforts.
Analytical Space is slated to launch its third data relay demonstration satellite, Cornicen-1, via a separate SBIR Phase II contract with the U.S. Space Force in late 2021.