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 states that Chinese military leaders have rejected attempts to improve radio communications protocols and to agree to rules of behavior for air and maritime encounters with U.S. forces in the Pacific region.
Congress has mandated the Department of Defense to produce the annual "Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China" report since 2000 to inform U.S. policy debates about China’s military growth and modernization.
KBR received the task order under the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center Multiple Award Contract vehicle.
KBR was awarded a $75 million, five-year recompete task order to perform research and analysis addressing the Department of Defense critical technology areas of advanced materials, trusted artificial intelligence and autonomy, and renewable energy generation and storage.
AnySignal aims to expand its engineering and sales teams to increase production and environmental testing capacity, improve security compliance for Department of Defense contracting requirements, and seed development of additional products.
Mission Multiplier provides IT engineering, cybersecurity, consulting, staffing, and managed services to the Department of Defense, federal agencies, the Armed Forces, aerospace, aviation, and other commercial entities.
Ligado’s lawsuit alleges the Department of Defense has been using L-band frequencies without providing compensation.
The Department of Defense classifies non-traditional contractors to include small businesses exempt from DOD cost-accounting requirements, firms that perform contracts only under commercial procedures, and firms that work only under firm-fixed-price contracts.
Ligado Networks filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on 2023-10-13 suing the U.S. government for derailing its wireless network plans so the company’s assigned spectrum could be used for Department of Defense systems.
Kymeta’s military-focused Osprey u8 GEO terminal was launched in March 2022 and is currently in use by multiple branches of the United States Department of Defense in ongoing conflicts.
Space Systems Command manages a $15,000,000,000 space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense.
Phase 1.0 of TraCSS is scheduled to be ready in September 2024 and will duplicate current Defense Department offerings with an improved conjunction scanning frequency.
The Defense Department is providing the Office of Space Commerce with better space situational awareness data as part of the transition effort.
The Office of Space Commerce is making progress on setting up a system to take space situational awareness data from the Defense Department and other sources to warn satellite operators.
The Defense Department plans to release a high-accuracy catalog of data to the Office of Space Commerce every four hours starting in spring of the next year.
The Defense Department continues to issue a growing number of conjunction warnings to satellite operators due to an increase in the number of satellites and debris in Earth orbit.
Phase 1.0 of TraCSS will scan for conjunctions every four hours, which is twice the current frequency of the Defense Department.
In 2017, Space Systems Command established the Space Enterprise Consortium to connect the Department of Defense with a network of innovators across emerging technology fields for research and development of space-related prototypes.
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit is seeking responsive access to cislunar space.
Orbit Fab has a fuel delivery agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense for hydrazine in geostationary orbit.