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 Office of Space Commerce is charged with implementing Space Policy Directive 3, a four-year-old policy directing the Commerce Department to take over civil space traffic management responsibilities currently handled by the Department of Defense.
The Department of Defense Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office reviewed the decision process for the relocation of U.S. Space Command.
The Office of Space Commerce is working with the Department of Defense, the U.S. Space Force, and U.S. Space Command to develop linkages and transition civil space traffic management responsibilities from DoD to Commerce.
Traditional Pentagon processes can take five to 10 years to deploy a capability, which Charles Beames contends does not work well in the cyber domain.
Hughes Network Systems and Viasat won Pentagon contracts under the DoD 0.005 kg pilot project.
The Department of Defense has a $600,000,000 initiative to demonstrate 0.005 kg wireless networks at military bases nationwide.
Space Systems Command and Virgin Orbit National Systems successfully air-launched seven Department of Defense research and development satellites for the U.S. Space Force on LauncherOne after taking off on 2022-07-01 from Mojave Air and Space Port, California.
The mission designated STP-S28A deployed seven satellites supplied by the Department of Defense Space Test Program into low Earth orbit.
The Department of Defense’s vision for a command-and-control network aims to connect the battlespace across all domains including sea, air, land, space, cyber, and the electromagnetic spectrum.
The Space Force launch procurement command in Los Angeles will send to the Pentagon later 2022 a proposed strategy for selecting national security launch services providers for the next round of contracts expected to be awarded in 2024.
The U.S. Department of Defense cannot purchase any Atlas V launches beyond 2022 due to a congressional ban on the use of Russian-built RD-180 engines.
The U.S. Space Force procured the STP-S28A launch through the Rocket Systems Launch Program with payloads provided by the Department of Defense Space Test Program.
Space Policy Directive 3 directs the Department of Commerce to take over civil space traffic management responsibilities currently handled by the Department of Defense.
The Pentagon plans to spend nearly $13,000,000,000 over the 2023-2027 period to develop and acquire military communications satellites.
The Department of Defense is budgeting $2,500,000,000 for Protected Tactical Service (PTS) satellites and the Protected Tactical Enterprise Service (PTES) ground system.
On 2022-06-21 BlackSky Technologies Inc. was awarded a basic order agreement from the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to create and optimize data sets for use in Department of Defense AI models and applications.
House Armed Services Committee staff assessed that increasing tactically responsive space funding to $150,000,000 in 2023 would be excessive because the Department of Defense is still working through prior appropriations.
The Strategic Forces subcommittee's mark directs consolidation of Department of Defense space programs under the U.S. Space Force, consistent with the intent of the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.
The Senate Armed Services Committee's version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act authorizes $817,300,000,000 for the Department of Defense, nearly $45,000,000,000 above the Biden administration's request of $773,000,000,000.
The $761,600,000,000 fiscal year 2023 Defense Department funding level is $32,000,000,000 above 2022 funding.