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 U.S. Department of Defense is still developing approaches to take advantage of artificial intelligence in military applications.
The National Reconnaissance Office is a joint intelligence community and Department of Defense organization that develops, launches, and operates signals, imagery, and communications satellites.
The committee directs the Department of Defense to brief lawmakers by 2019-09-15 on the Air Force’s plan to leverage commercial investments in responsive launch capabilities and integrate them into DoD space operations.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency continues to write requirements for commercial satellite imagery and deliver that imagery to the U.S. Department of Defense and the intelligence community.
The Strategic Forces subcommittee proposal denies Department of Defense funding to field the W76-2 submarine-launched nuclear warhead.
The Department of Defense, the Space Development Agency, and DARPA must provide a report by 2020-02-15 detailing progress on a proliferated LEO architecture and how it could enhance resilience and integrate into national security space strategy and architecture.
The SASC provision requires the Department of Defense to propose investments at ranges and spaceports to support its needs.
The SASC directs the Department of Defense to deliver a plan for acquiring tactical responsive launch that explains how DoD space operations could use commercial vehicles and facilities.
The SASC supports the Pentagon’s $13,190,000 request for the Rocket Systems Launch Program based at Kirtland Air Force Base.
The SASC supports the Pentagon’s $26,090,000 request for the Space Test Program based at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) recommended adding $108,000,000 to the Pentagon’s 2020 budget request for a space sensor layer to track cruise missiles and hypersonic weapons.
The Pentagon proposed creating a Space Force headquarters under the Air Force led by a four-star chief of staff who would be a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a civilian undersecretary of the Air Force for space.
House appropriators denied funding for the Space Force in their version of the 2020 defense budget and called on the Department of Defense to study alternatives.
Thornberry’s Continuing Acquisition Reform Act of 2019 includes a provision that requires the Department of Defense to report on the progress of rapid prototyping and fielding policies and limits funding for these programs until the report is submitted.
The Department of Defense requested nearly $1,400,000,000 for the Next-Generation OPIR program in its 2020 budget request, an increase of $752,000,000 above the 2019 enacted level.
The committee agreed with the Department of Defense recommendation to establish the U.S. Space Force within the U.S. Air Force.
The House Appropriations Committee reduced the Department of Defense’s 2020 OPIR funding request by $201,000,000.
The Department of Defense projects to spend more than $11,000,000,000 on the Next-Generation OPIR program over the next five years.
The Senate Armed Services Committee supported the Department of Defense’s funding request of $72,400,000 to stand up the Space Force in its NDAA markup.
The Department of Defense's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office performed an independent evaluation leading up to the September 2018 recertification of OCX.