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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Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, directed the Defense Science Board in a 2022-11-21 memo to recommend steps the Department of Defense should take to ensure access to commercial space sources.
The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act directs the Department of Defense to examine all Space Force programs to determine if their level of classification could be changed to a lower level or declassified entirely.
The 2023 spending bill passed by Congress on 2022-12-23 added $69,300,000,000 for the Department of Defense above the Pentagon’s request.
Terran Orbital canceled plans to build a commercial remote-sensing constellation in late 2022 and shifted focus to producing space hardware for NASA, the Department of Defense, and strategic investor Lockheed Martin.
Raytheon BBN will leverage its experience developing and maintaining Department of Defense logistics and planning tools such as Analysis of Mobility Platform (AMP), Global Mission Scheduling (GMS), and Rapid Course of Action Tool (RCAT) to provide capability for the rocket cargo mission.
The collaboration between Northrop Grumman, AT&T, and Fujitsu is designed to deliver a cost-effective, scalable, open-architecture solution for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Northrop Grumman will provide cloud-enabled applications to foster data exchanges across Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customer centers and satellite locations under the InSITE program.
The U.S. Department of Defense invested more than $24,000,000 in the development of Neutron’s upper stage.
Space Systems Command manages an $11,000,000,000 space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense.
Space Systems Command is the U.S. Space Force field command responsible for acquiring and delivering resilient warfighting capabilities and manages an $11,000,000,000 space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense.
Upon delivery, WSF-M will provide mission data to Department of Defense environmental prediction systems that support all warfighter domains.
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit and NASA are funding space station testing of the intelligent Space Systems Interface developed by Germany’s iBoss GmbH and Skycorp.
The $797,700,000,000 appropriations level for the Defense Department in the 2022-12-23 funding bill is $69,300,000,000 more than DoD received in 2022.
Velos estimates that the $26,300,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force is nearly $1,700,000,000 more than the Pentagon requested.
Congress approved a consolidated $1,700,000,000,000 government funding bill on 2022-12-23 that includes $797,700,000,000 for the Defense Department.
The Pentagon’s 2023 budget request did not include resources to establish the tactically responsive launch program.
The NDAA requires the secretary of defense and the director of national intelligence to make publicly available within 90 days an unclassified strategy containing actions to defend and protect on-orbit Department of Defense and intelligence community satellites from adversary targeting, degradation, or destruction.
The Space Development Agency was formed inside the Pentagon in 2019 and transferred to the U.S. Space Force on 2022-10-01.
The renewed SATCOM-as-a-Service orders for the U.S. Department of Defense cover a 12-month period starting in mid-December 2022.
Ovzon received $16,000,000 in renewed orders for its SATCOM-as-a-Service to the United States Department of Defense via partner Intelsat General Communications (IGC).