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’s $1.2 billion loan package is intended to build domestic separation and metallization facilities for the U.S. rare earth element supply chain.
The Department of Defense should expand the commercial services working capital fund into a dedicated Golden Dome subsystem fund.
The Pentagon is relying on commercial industrial lines to build a credible deterrent in space.
The U.S. Department of Defense maintains MIL-SPEC process specifications for flight hardware surface treatments.
Customers of Comtech’s Satellite & Space Communications division include the U.S. Department of Defense, allied defense agencies, satellite operators, and energy companies operating in complex environments.
The pilot program would allow the Defense Department to assess the usefulness of in-space data storage and processing for military operations.
The NEW HORIZON Act would establish a pilot program for the Pentagon to evaluate commercial orbital data centers and space-based cloud computing for national security missions.
The pilot program would allow the Defense Department to evaluate how orbital data centers can be integrated with existing communications and intelligence technology.
The pilot program would allow the Defense Department to study the resiliency and vulnerabilities of orbital data centers.
The Nodes, Enterprise Workloads, and Hybrid Operations, Resilience, Integration, Zero-Trust, Orbital Networks Act would establish a pilot program for the Pentagon to evaluate commercial orbital data centers and space-based cloud computing for national security missions.
More than 70 percent of Comtech’s active customer base includes the U.S. Department of Defense, allied defense agencies, and commercial space companies.
The Pentagon relies heavily on SpaceX for launching national security payloads and maintaining the Starshield military satellite network.
Wolfpack Research published a critical report in mid-May alleging that the Pentagon had decided to eliminate the Space Development Agency Tranche 3 Transport Layer program because of disappointment with York Space Systems' operational performance.
The $94 million U.S. Space Force contract falls under the Department of Defense’s APFIT program.
The U.S. Department of Defense estimates that Golden Dome will cost $185 billion.
More than 90 percent of Mynaric’s backlog is funded by U.S. Department of Defense contracts.
The Department of Defense is investing billions of dollars to upgrade launch sites for additional launchers.
The Pentagon risks spending tens of billions of dollars on an orbital mesh network that may fail to reliably track threats in a contested combat environment if software bugs and hardware quality issues are not resolved on the assembly line.
John Rood served as the Pentagon’s principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense on national security policy while he was Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. secured multi-million dollar awards from the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Army, and a European Ministry of Defense.