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 Department of Defense is requesting $144,000,000 for the Office of Strategic Capital.
Congress has authorized the Office of Strategic Capital and the Department of Defense is seeking $144,000,000 for the program in fiscal year 2025.
BlackSky Technology Inc. won a multi-million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to collect and annotate thousands of BlackSky multi-frame burst images to train moving target artificial intelligence models for commercial motion imagery.
Muon Space designed MuSat2 to use signals of opportunity from GPS and other satellites to produce high-gain, dual-polarization, bi-static radar measurements for Department of Defense customers.
The Department of Defense is planning a multi-orbit architecture that includes satellites in low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and highly elliptical orbit for missile detection and tracking.
ACMI plans to establish a Space Systems Campus that incorporates an applied research facility partnered with academic institutions, state and local government, the Department of Defense, and regional economic development organizations.
BlackSky Technology Inc. won a multi-million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to collect and annotate thousands of multi-frame burst images to train moving target artificial intelligence models for commercial motion imagery.
The Department of Defense emphasized the importance of securing critical space-based missions in its Space Policy Review and Strategy.
The Pentagon's space policy is coordinating the document detailing potential partnerships between the Space Force and the commercial space industry.
US military officials describe space as a warfighting domain where military and commercial satellites face threats including jamming, cyberattacks, and kinetic anti-satellite weapons.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation was conceived in 1973 as a Pentagon effort to develop precision navigation and timing for military operations.
Ed Spitler served as a Cryptographic Telecommunications and Systems Specialist in the military before working with the US Department of Defense Contractor.
Pony Express 2 will be joined by additional satellites launched later to form Lockheed Martin’s Space-Augmented Joint All-Domain Operations Environment (SAJE) to support the Department of Defense’s CJADC2 vision.
The Space Development Agency is building a proliferated mesh network of satellites in low Earth orbit for the U.S. Department of Defense.
The Department of Defense will use a common set of data to adjust and modify capabilities for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 Tracking Layer constellation.
The Department of Defense will use a common set of data to adjust and modify capabilities for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 Tracking Layer constellation.
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a $10,000,000 follow-on order to DataPath, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.
Aalyria’s Spacetime network orchestration software platform was used to operate a multi-vendor, multi-operator, multi-orbit SATCOM network across secure Department of Defense and multiple commercial provider locations.
Two Six Technologies completed its fourth strategic acquisition in 2023, adding a Maryland company with proprietary product platforms to deliver data and analytical capabilities to Intelligence Community and Department of Defense customers.
The Defense Innovation Unit's status was elevated in 2024 to help the Pentagon gain more rapid access to commercial companies with promising technologies.