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 Department of Defense requested $149,000,000 for the Space Development Agency in fiscal year 2020.
The House Appropriations Committee cut the Pentagon’s $72,000,000 request for the space service down to $15,000,000.
DoD officials testified that the Senate bill does not provide the authorities and resources the Pentagon believes are needed to create a separate military branch for space under the Department of the Air Force.
General Dynamics Mission Systems is divesting its SATCOM Technologies business area to better align its business efforts in core areas supporting U.S. Department of Defense and government agency customers.
Mark Esper prioritized filling positions quickly to establish stable civilian leadership at the Defense Department.
The Pentagon’s entire weapons portfolio cost was $2,000,000,000,000 in 2018, up from $1,900,000,000,000 in 2017.
The Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program dates back to 1994 when President Bill Clinton signed a National Space Transportation Policy assigning responsibility for expendable launch vehicles to the Department of Defense.
The Department of Defense estimates the total cost of the National Security Space Launch program increased by $4,100,000,000 since December 2018.
The House reduced the Pentagon’s $72,000,000 request for standing up a new service headquarters at the Pentagon to $15,000,000.
The Department of Defense spends about $15,000,000,000 per year on unclassified space activities.
House appropriators questioned the Air Force strategy for next-gen OPIR and cut the Department of Defense’s request by $201,000,000 in their report accompanying the 2020 defense markup.
Viasat provides advanced global connectivity services to high-profile leaders within the U.S. Government and the Department of Defense via a multi-network, multi-orbit satellite communications system.
Viasat has the opportunity to work with the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Defense to further develop, deploy, and demonstrate its Hybrid Adaptive Network concept with potential to provide future communications services to the government for multi-domain operations.
President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 3 in June 2018 directing the Defense Department to give the publicly releasable portion of its space situational awareness data to the Commerce Department.
The Senate version of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act does not allow the Department of Defense to create a service immediately and lays out a one-year transition plan during which Air Force Space Command would be rebranded as the U.S. Space Force.
The House Armed Services Committee completed its review of Department of Defense reprogramming requests for fiscal year 2019 that totaled approximately $518,000,000 across multiple fiscal years.
In the 2019-03-12 memo that created the Space Development Agency, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan directed that Undersecretary Mike Griffin would work with the Department of Defense comptroller to reprogram funds during fiscal year 2019.
Executive Order 13533 provides an order of succession within the Department of Defense.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith and Ranking Member Mac Thornberry denied the Pentagon request to allocate $15,000,000 to the Space Development Agency for fiscal year 2019.
The requested $15,000,000 for the Space Development Agency was described in the HASC letter as an initial downpayment on a total cost of $558,000,000 that the Department of Defense projected to request for the agency over five years.