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 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance directs the Department of Defense to streamline processes for developing, testing, acquiring, deploying, and securing new technologies.
The Department of Defense operates sensor satellites that can detect missiles from geostationary orbit but needs to develop algorithms to detect hypersonic missiles against the fast-moving low Earth orbit background.
SES Government Solutions designed, developed, and is fielding an O3b Medium Earth Orbit loopback capability in partnership with a U.S. Government customer to provide improved mission-critical communications for Department of Defense operations in remote locations in Southwest Asia.
The contract titled 'Modular Software Defined Radio for Resilient SATCOM' requires Space Micro to assess future Department of Defense requirements for advanced SATCOM.
The Defense Department’s inspector general will begin a probe into how the Air Force decided to move U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama.
SES Government Solutions provides connectivity for deployed U.S. Department of Defense personnel with its new portable maritime solution.
The U.S. Department of Defense procured a portable MEO service to support forward-deployed U.S. military personnel.
SES Government Solutions was awarded a portable maritime solution task order under a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense for MEO, low-latency, high-throughput satellite services.
The trial was part of the Dutch Defense Department's examination of methods to combat small unmanned systems.
LinQuest’s Integrated Analytics & Support business unit performed work under the Department of Defense’s SBIR program.
Honeywell will provide its third-generation M-code EGI, available for early integration, to various Department of Defense and international customers 2021.
The Defense Department’s Space Development Agency will launch a series of experiments including satellites with laser (optical) crosslinks and missile-tracking sensors as it begins deploying a network of satellites in low-Earth orbit in 2022.
The Space Development Agency persuaded Pentagon leadership that it could procure satellites for under $20,000,000 apiece.
The SDA is structured to operate similarly to a commercial entity within the Defense Department.
There are 400,000 users in the Department of Defense and the intelligence community of Maxar’s geospatial intelligence products.
Sagetech Avionics announced the issuance of the world’s first 17-1000 Mark XIIB certification for its MX12B micro Mode 5 Identify Friend or Foe transponder by the DoD AIMS Program Office on 5 February.
Bruno recommended that the Defense Department encourage inexperienced space startups to collaborate with traditional contractors to access cutting-edge technology.
In October 2020 Continental Mapping acquired TSG Solutions, a company headquartered in Carlsbad, California, expanding Continental Mapping’s presence in the Department of Defense and commercial utilities sector.
The 2021-01-27 executive order on 'Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad' assigns NASA, among several other agencies, to work with the Defense Department on a 'Climate Risk Analysis' to examine the security implications of climate change.
The Defense Department announced the Viasat contract on 2021-02-02.