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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Winners of Defense Department small business innovation research (SBIR) contracts are eligible to compete for up to $40,000,000 at the Air Force’s Space Pitch Day.
The Missile Defense Agency has been studying options to deploy a space sensor layer for hypersonic detection, and the Department of Defense currently has no official requirement to develop such a layer.
The Department of Defense proposal to form the Space Force seeks to keep costs down by creating the new service with existing personnel who would be transferred into the Space Force.
The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2020 budget requests $72,400,000 and 160 personnel (122 civilian and 38 military) to stand up the Space Force headquarters.
The Department of Defense proposal seeks special authorities for the secretary of defense to move people, facilities, budgets, and programs and to hire civilian employees outside the traditional civil service process.
The Department of Defense plans to move expeditiously to establish U.S. Space Command and is working with Congress to determine timeline variables such as the command’s location.
The Department of Defense will decide the definitive location of U.S. Space Command after completing a basing study and required environmental analysis.
President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon in June to establish a Space Force.
The Aerospace Corporation is a nonprofit federally funded research and development center based in Los Angeles that advises the Department of Defense.
The Defense Department submitted a legislative proposal in February to create a Space Force under the Department of the Air Force led by a four-star chief of staff, a four-star vice chief of staff, and a civilian undersecretary.
Congress started the Rapid Agile Launch Initiative with $15,000,000 added to the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2017 budget and the program grew to $25,000,000 in fiscal year 2019.
The Pentagon requested $85,000,000 in 2020 for Space Development Agency space technology development and prototyping.
The Pentagon proposed shifting $165,000,000,000 of the $718,000,000,000 DoD budget into the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account in its 2020 budget plan.
The president’s proposed national defense budget for 2020 totals $750 billion, including $718,000,000,000 for the Department of Defense and $32,000,000,000 for national security programs performed by the Department of Energy’s nuclear laboratories and other agencies.
The Pentagon requested $15,000,000 in 2020 to develop transport layer architecture and standards for the Space Development Agency.
The Pentagon requested $44,800,000 for Space Development Agency staffing in 2020.
The Pentagon plans to seek establishment of a U.S. Space Force within the Department of the Air Force.
The Pentagon requested $10,000,000 in 2020 for commercial procurement of space situational awareness services and launch of small satellites in low Earth orbit for the Space Development Agency.
The Pentagon plans to stand up a Space Development Agency in 2020 under the authority of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
The Air Force planned to release the final request for proposals for the Launch Service Procurement last week but Pentagon approval to issue the RFP was put on temporary hold following a 2019-03-26 meeting with Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen Lord.