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 National Reconnaissance Office is working with the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency to leverage the communications constellation the agency is developing.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act directed the Pentagon to name a senior acquisition executive with the title assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration.
The U.S. Department of Defense is investing nearly $1,000,000,000 in the development of Vulcan Centaur.
Congress passed a law in 2016 that prohibits the U.S. Department of Defense after 2022 from procuring launch services on vehicles that use the Russian-made RD-180 engine.
The congressional ban on RD-180-powered launches applies only to Defense Department missions, allowing Atlas V to continue to be offered for civil and commercial launches.
Northrop Grumman’s HCB-enabled gateway solutions are designed to provide high-speed, secure, open, and platform-agnostic communications capabilities for the Department of Defense’s JADC2 effort.
As head of the Office of Space Commerce, Kevin O’Connell led the Commerce Department’s efforts to take over civil space traffic management functions that were previously under the Department of Defense.
Ovzon, through its partner Intelsat General Communications (IGC), received a new SATCOM-as-a-Service order from the U.S. Department of Defense for expanded access to the Ovzon global satellite network.
Michèle Flournoy led the development of the Department of Defense’s 2012 Strategic Guidance.
The Department of Defense requested $434,000,000 in its budget proposal for M-code-compatible GPS receiver cards for Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps platforms.
The Department of Defense is investing $4,100,000,000 in the GPS III space segment covering production, launch, and operating costs for the 10 satellites.
The Department of Defense sought nearly $1,800,000,000 in its proposed fiscal year 2022 budget for the GPS program, including about $1,100,000,000 for RDT&E and $688,000,000 for procurement of two GPS 3F satellites.
The U.S. Department of Defense agreed last year to reimburse defense contractors billions of dollars for pandemic-related costs as part of a broad effort to support the industrial base.
U.S. law bans the Department of Defense from procuring Atlas 5 launches beyond 2022.
Momentus reached a national security agreement with the U.S. Defense Department and U.S. Treasury Department on 2021-06-09.
Ryan Tseng, Shield AI CEO, stated that the architecture of the V-BAT uniquely meets current and future Department of Defense needs.
CICERO-2 is designed to provide NOAA climate and weather monitoring observations prioritized by the NOAA Space Platform Requirements Working Group (SPRWG) and to support Defense Department satellite weather data requirements.
CICERO-2 is designed to provide high-priority NOAA climate and weather monitoring observations and to support Defense Department satellite weather data requirements.
The Space Development Agency is a Defense Department agency building a large constellation of small communications satellites in low Earth orbit called the Transport Layer.
The Department of Defense, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency are directed to submit a report identifying commercial vendors that provide global imagery to support military needs, gaps in geospatial intelligence, and an assessment of how commercial capabilities can be integrated into DoD programs.