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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Saltzman is returning to the Pentagon after managing air operations in Central and Southwest Asia.
The U.S. Space Force's Pentagon headquarters will have a leaner staff structure than traditional military service headquarters.
The canceled Defense Department contracts were to be awarded through the Defense Production Act as part of a broader effort to support parts of the defense industrial base affected by the pandemic.
The U.S. Defense Department canceled on 2020-07-01 plans to award launch contracts to six small launch vehicle developers: Aevum, Astra, X-Bow, Rocket Lab, Space Vector, and VOX Space.
The Department of Defense did not release the amounts of the contracts it planned to award to the six companies.
The Defense Department reversed its decision to award contracts funded under the Defense Production Act to six small launch companies.
The Defense Production Act Title 3 provisions invoked by the Trump administration allow the Department of Defense to invest in domestic suppliers to shore up industries financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Turner’s amendment prohibits the Department of Defense from spending any funds to retrofit Global Positioning System devices or systems that use GPS to mitigate interference from Ligado’s future terrestrial 0.005 kg wireless network.
The Department of Defense selected Aevum, Astra, X-Bow, Rocket Lab, Space Vector, and VOX Space on 2020-06-16 to receive noncompetitive contracts to launch two rideshare missions for government customers over the next 24 months.
Microsoft Azure won the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud services contract last year, a contract worth up to $10,000,000,000.
Congress directed the Department of Defense to move the Space Development Agency to the U.S. Space Force by 2022.
The Department of Defense has tasked the Space Development Agency with providing a transport layer of satellites in low Earth orbit to serve as the future communications backbone for the military’s command-and-control networks.
The 2021 NDAA bill requires the Department of Defense to complete the nonrecurring design validation of previously flown launch hardware for National Security Space Launch providers that offer such hardware no later than 540 days after selection of Phase 2 providers.
The Department of Defense stood up the Space Development Agency in March 2019 under Mike Griffin’s office.
A team at the Pentagon reviews data on a weekly basis to decide which companies should receive contracts funded under the Defense Production Act.
Since April 2020 the Pentagon has awarded $472,000,000 in contracts aimed at boosting domestic industries such as medical equipment, shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, and textiles.
The draft bill requests the Department of Defense provide a detailed report on the cost and requirements for deep-space missions for national security, specifically cislunar space activities beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit near the moon’s orbit.
The 2021 draft National Defense Authorization Act is heavy on nuclear weapons policy and missile defense and raises questions about the Department of Defense’s use of commercial space technology, its acquisition strategy for satellite-based communications, and the future plans of the Space Development Agency.
Congress directed the Department of Defense to transfer the Space Development Agency to the U.S. Space Force by October 2022.
Aevum, Astra, X-Bow, Rocket Lab, Space Vector, and VOX Space were selected to receive Defense Department contracts funded under the Defense Production Act to shore up domestic industries impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.