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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L3Harris will provide Department of Defense users with point-and-click capabilities to generate synthetic data and create custom workflows with automated updates.
The ESCP-P system is expected to be operating starting in 2034 and will be interoperable with the U.S. Department of Defense and NATO.
The Pentagon’s 2023 budget request includes $68,000,000 to build dormitories for troops expected to be permanently based at Clear Space Force Station.
The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force provide about 80% of all Department of Defense resources in the Arctic region, including military bases, training complexes, satellites, command-and-control stations, and early warning and missile defense radars.
The Department of Defense’s Arctic strategy last updated in 2019 characterizes the Arctic as a potential vector for an attack on the U.S. homeland and an area where Russia and China are operating more freely.
The Defense Department's Office of Inspector General concluded that the January 2021 recommendation to relocate U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, was reasonable and not improperly influenced by politics.
The Department of Defence selected Gilmour Space Technologies to develop and launch a sovereign surveillance satellite as part of the government’s new space capabilities investment.
Air Force Gen. John Hyten attributed $40,000,000,000 in Defense Department savings to competition enabled by SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.
Frank Calvelli’s prepared testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee stated that the establishment of the U.S. Space Force provided the Department of Defense an opportunity to take a fresh look at how to equip the force with new capabilities for the future fight and that the commercial sector is at the forefront of technologies such as artificial intelligence, edge computing, and machine learning.
The Department of Defense budget documents estimate more than $10,000,000,000 will be spent on national security space launch over five years, with 35 missions projected from fiscal year 2023 through 2027.
The OADR will be used to provide services such as conjunction warnings that are currently handled by the Department of Defense.
Currently only Northrop Grumman and Aerojet Rocketdyne are supplying solid rocket motors to the U.S. Department of Defense.
The Federal Communications Commission granted Ligado permission in April 2020 to use its satellite L-band spectrum terrestrially following a four-year proceeding despite opposition from the Pentagon and other government agencies.
L3Harris won Basic Order Agreements from the Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Data Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Development program, a five-year program with a $242,000,000 ceiling.
The GPS Source APNT systems support the Department of Defense’s ongoing GPS modernization program and will provide Patriot missile radars, launchers, and command and control systems with a stronger, more accurate GPS signal to protect them against potential jamming or electronic warfare attacks.
Consumers of satellite imagery include first responders, the Department of Defense, and the Intelligence Community.
Victoria Samson, Washington office director of the Secure World Foundation, cited the U.S. test ban alongside the Department of Defense’s July 2021 tenets of responsible space behavior as contributing to limits on the creation of long-lived space debris.
Iridium is bidding to operate a planned low Earth orbit constellation for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Space Development Agency Transport Layer Tranche 1.
The Defense Department issued space behavior guidelines in 2023 that require operators to limit the generation of long-lived orbital debris.
OneWeb’s LEO network delivers low-latency, high-speed, multi-orbit connectivity intended for Department of Defense and other government customers.