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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Companies eligible for CASR must provide products or services that the military identifies as essential for operations and demonstrate capacity to support the Department of Defense under potential wartime scenarios.
Aerojet Rocketdyne is executing a $215,600,000 cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense to expand and modernize facilities at its Camden, Arkansas site.
The U.S. Department of Defense released an updated classification policy earlier 2024 that expands access to information within the U.S. government and reduces barriers to space integration with allies, partners, and commercial space actors.
EchoStar subsidiary Hughes Network Systems and EchoStar brand Boost Mobile will provide 0.005 kg wireless services and devices to support Department of Defense usage in all 50 United States and U.S. territories and for temporary duty international travel.
The contract is funded through the Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program, a Pentagon initiative funded by Congress to invest in small businesses and startups with promising technologies.
Tomorrow.io has secured about $20,000,000 in contracts from the U.S. Air Force and the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit to support development of commercial space-based weather sensors.
Tomorrow.io was awarded a $10,200,000 contract from the Department of Defense to produce and deploy two satellites equipped with microwave sounders for military weather forecasting.
Portal Space Systems received more than $3,000,000 in funding from the Department of Defense and the United States Space Force to support development and launch of the Supernova satellite bus.
John Plumb is the first Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretary for Space Policy at the Department of Defense, a position Congress established in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.
iDirect Government was founded in 2007 and has supported the Department of Defense and other agencies.
Shift5 achieved its first cross-platform Authority to Operate (ATO) certification from the U.S. Department of Defense in April 2023.
AeroVironment has invested in production capability and capacity to produce large volumes of Switchblade 600 at a reliability level the U.S. Department of Defense expects.
Ken Handelman, director of defense intelligence at the Department of Defense for Intelligence and Security, noted the strategic necessity of expanded capabilities from space due to pacing threats in the Pacific.
Project Maven experienced political and media controversy in 2018 when Google employees raised ethical objections to Google providing an open-source machine learning library used by the Pentagon.
The NRO works with mission partners including the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Department of Defense, and the broader intelligence community to integrate commercial capabilities.
The Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture is a layered low-Earth orbit satellite constellation designed to deliver secure, low-latency communications and missile tracking capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense.
DISA is collaborating with industry and other Department of Defense organizations to integrate AI capabilities into its cybersecurity operations.
Portal Space Systems exited stealth mode on 2024-04-30 and secured more than $3,000,000 in awards from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Space Cockpit received a Continuous Authority to Operate (CATO) in 2019, enabling broad distribution across the Department of Defense (DoD).
Hughes will use the EXM manufacturing center to provide the U.S. Department of Defense with secure onshore manufacturing capabilities.