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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As part of a major stimulus bill passed in March, the Department of Defense received more than $10 billion, about $1,000,000,000 of which was Defense Production Act money to help industries critical to national security.
SpaceX won a $149,000,000 contract from the Defense Department’s Space Development Agency to build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
Esri offers a single, end-to-end drone solution that integrates Freefly Astro and is supported by Site Scan, using US Department of Defense-approved Blue sUAS software architecture.
Appropriators in the 2020 Defense Department conference report raised concerns about the Air Force’s commitment to provide accurate and timely weather data for worldwide military operations.
The TACGEO program is designed to support the Department of Defense’s need for responsive, space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance for tactical applications.
The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest user of satellite capacity in the world and is exploring ways to utilize capacity coming online in GEO, MEO, and LEO orbits.
Space Policy Directive 3, signed in June 2018, called for the Commerce Department, through its Office of Space Commerce, to take on civil space traffic management responsibilities then handled by the Department of Defense.
NASA works closely with the U.S. Department of Defense on monitoring potential collisions of debris with the International Space Station and other agency spacecraft.
The National Academy of Public Administration published a report on 2020-08-20 concluding that the Commerce Department was the best agency for civil space traffic management compared to NASA, the Department of Defense, and the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The fiscal year 2020 defense appropriations conference report found that the Department of Defense lacks consensus on its space architecture plans to meet requirements for strategic and tactical missile warning, missile defense, and battlespace awareness mission areas.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency supports both the U.S. intelligence community and the Department of Defense.
The Department of Defense procurement process still follows the Joint Requirements Oversight Council process that was established in 1984.
The Department of Defense procurement process continues to use the program objective memorandum (POMing) approach that originated under Robert McNamara in 1951.
Govini found that the number of Chinese suppliers in the Defense Department’s supplier base increased by 420% from 2010 to 2019 to 655 in the sampled data.
The Space Development Agency is a U.S. Department of Defense agency charged with transforming the military’s approach to developing and acquiring space systems.
DARPA plans to launch as many as 20 small satellites for the Blackjack program to demonstrate a mesh network in low Earth orbit that can meet military requirements at lower cost and shorter design cycles than traditional Pentagon programs.
Thomas Zelibor spent the first 34 years of his career in the US military.
Thomas Zelibor aims to bring new ideas and the latest technologies to the Department of Defense through his appointment to the DIB SAC.
Thomas Zelibor will provide independent advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Defense and other senior Department of Defense leaders on emerging space technologies.
Lockheed Martin will build 10 satellites for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency using small buses from Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.