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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SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman were competitors for the U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 2 competition with two winners to be selected in summer 2020.
The Space Force plans to start fielding new strategic communications satellites under the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications program in 2032 or later.
Cooper’s amendment directs the Comptroller General of the United States to review the draft report on an Alternative Acquisition System for the United States Space Force and provide its analysis to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees by 2020-12-15.
The Space Force plans to deploy new early warning satellites under the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program with the first satellite projected to launch in 2025.
ULA aims to fly Vulcan Centaur in 2021 to remain competitive for one of two U.S. Space Force launch contracts that will cover launches between 2022 and 2027.
Turner’s amendment directs the Space Force to report back on how it will provide protected communications satellites from 2025 through 2032.
Ranking member of the Strategic Forces subcommittee Mike Turner included an amendment asking the U.S. Space Force to provide secure communications systems to support missile-warning satellites.
Clint Crosier, a retired U.S. Air Force Major General who helped establish and provided early guidance to the U.S. Space Force, will lead AWS’s Aerospace and Satellite Solutions division.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a U.S. Space Force GPS III satellite on 2020-06-30 from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 4:10 p.m. Eastern.
The U.S. Space Force requested $1,000,000,000 for procurement of launch services in its 2021 budget request.
Adam Smith’s bill would require the Space Force to competitively award $150,000,000 in research and development contracts for National Security Space Launch.
The U.S. Space Force requested $560,900,000 for National Security Space Launch R&D in its 2021 budget request.
ASTRA was one of three companies selected by the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center to develop prototype electro-optical and infrared weather sensors.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office is now part of the U.S. Space Force and was created to develop technologies on accelerated schedules.
The Senate version of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act requires the Space Development Agency to be transferred from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to the Space Force by 2022-10-01, or earlier.
Congress directed the Department of Defense to move the Space Development Agency to the U.S. Space Force by 2022.
The Space Development Agency must be transferred from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to the U.S. Space Force by 2022-10-01 or earlier.
The 2020 NDAA directed the National Reconnaissance Office to submit a report on commercial space-based radio frequency mapping, and the 2021 draft bill directs the Chief of Operations of the Space Force to deliver an assessment of how U.S. commercial space-based radio frequency capabilities could support the U.S. military.
Congress directed the Department of Defense to transfer the Space Development Agency to the U.S. Space Force by October 2022.
The U.S. Space Force procurement organization Space and Missile Systems Center disclosed the six selected small-launch vendors on 2020-06-16.