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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Within six months of announcing its Space launch services, Aevum won nearly $1,000,000,000 in publicly announced contracts from various customers including the U.S. Department of Defense.
The MGUE Increment 1 Common GPS Modules will support the U.S. Department of Defense and international allies through 2030.
BAE Systems will support the U.S. Department of Defense and international allies with MGUE Increment 1 CGMs through 2030.
Under the contract, BAE Systems will provide MGUE Increment 1 GPS modules to the Department of Defense and U.S. allies through 2030.
York Space Systems is building communications satellites for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency under a $94,000,000 contract awarded in 2020.
Tyvak supplies small satellite buses to Lockheed Martin, which won a contract from the U.S. Defense Department’s Space Development Agency to provide 10 communications satellites.
Momentus spent months addressing foreign ownership concerns raised early 2021 by the U.S. Defense Department.
SpEC was established in 2017 to facilitate engagement between the Department of Defense space community, industry, and academia.
OneWeb will offer Department of Defense and other government clients a suite of services with network speeds up to 195 Mbps.
OneWeb successfully demonstrated a turnkey satellite-based communications system to the U.S. Department of Defense in March 2021 with data rates up to 500 Mbps and latency levels as low as 32 ms.
The Department of Defense concerns led to the FAA failing to grant approval in time for Momentus’ Vigoride-1 tug to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-1 rideshare mission in January 2025.
OneWeb successfully demonstrated a turnkey satellite-based communications system to the U.S. Department of Defense in March 2021 with data rates up to 500 Mbps and latency levels as low as 32 ms.
TrustComm signed an agreement on 2021-03-16 to be OneWeb's Department of Defense distribution partner focusing on early adopters including the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the U.S. Army Futures Research Lab.
OneWeb will offer Department of Defense and other government clients a suite of services with network speeds up to 195 Mbps, lower latency, smaller and more compact multi-orbit user terminals, and built-in network management tools that provide substantial economic savings over traditional GEO sales models.
SES Government Solutions was awarded a $35,000,000 GEO satellite communications program contract in support of a Department of Defense combatant command.
SFI's team includes engineering, biomedical, geo-political, and policy experts as well as former high-ranking US military and government leaders.
In 2019 the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress criticized the Department of Defense for not opening opportunities to emerging commercial space companies and was especially critical of the national security space launch program.
Stratolaunch is positioning its vehicle system to offer the U.S. Department of Defense a means to test hypersonic technologies in a simpler, repeatable, and reusable way to mitigate risk for expensive flight testing.
The OCX Blocks 1 & 2 System supports the latest Department of Defense cybersecurity standards and practices and includes advanced features beyond the legacy GPS Ground Segment.
Since 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense and Israel have partnered in the Space Situational Awareness Data Sharing Program.