The Department of Defense (DOD) is a U.S. government agency responsible for military and national security space activities. It acts as a major procurer and operator of space systems, including launch vehicles and satellite systems for reconnaissance, missile launch detection, navigation, and communication. The DOD aims to maintain space superiority, integrate military space power, and ensure space stability, working with commercial firms to integrate space solutions into national security architectures.
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The Pentagon requested $15,000,000 for the Blackjack program in fiscal year 2019.
The U.S. Defense Department is reevaluating its reliance on military-grade electronics produced in the United States.
The Pentagon requested $2,500,000,000 in its 2019 budget for two large ground-based radars.
The Air Force’s original plan did not include a three-star Space Command official in the Pentagon.
The Air Force decided that Space Command chief Gen. John Raymond should have a deputy based in the Pentagon to reduce his travel time to D.C. and allow him to focus more on operations in Colorado Springs.
Section 1603 of the HASC chairman’s bill would terminate the Department of Defense’s authority to provide space situational awareness data to commercial and foreign entities on 2024-01-01.
The Pentagon will spend about $10,000,000 on the second-phase effort to prototype a combined military and commercial satcom network.
The Defense Department awarded Hughes Network Systems a contract on 2018-05-07 to develop a flexible modem interface for military terminals that enables military and commercial systems to interoperate in the field.
The Defense Department plans a third pilot in fiscal year 2019 to conduct a larger-scale demonstration of network interoperability.
The Defense Department is evaluating a shift from buying raw bandwidth and building its own networks to purchasing managed services with recurring monthly capacity.
The Department of Defense plans to leverage and loosely associate more than 50 existing programs as part of its AI consolidation efforts.
The Department of Defense has committed $10,000,000,000 to modernize its cloud computing platforms.
The Pentagon did not request funding in the 2018 or 2019 budgets to buy WGS satellites beyond the 10 already ordered from Boeing.
The subcommittee directed the Department of Defense to study the risks, benefits, and cost savings of using small- and medium-size satellite buses for strategic and tactical payloads.
The FY-19 bill directs the Department of Defense to provide a detailed report on the budget for space programs within 30 days after the president’s budget is submitted to Congress.
The ViaSat Radio Frequency Generator 1000 (VRG-1000) was certified by the U.S. Department of Defense AIMS Program Office on 2017-09-07.
Charles Beames' last position in the Department of Defense was Principal Director, Space & Intelligence Systems in the Pentagon, overseeing the execution of a $90,000,000,000 annual acquisition budget.