The U.S. Navy plays a crucial role in the space industry through Naval Space Command (NAVSPACECOM). NAVSPACECOM is tasked with developing space capabilities to provide the Navy with global communications, targeting, and reconnaissance using space-based assets. They advocate for space-based capabilities and integrate them into maritime operations, working with partners like the U.S. Space Command to ensure maritime operations are supported by space assets. The Navy also has a history of contributing to manned spaceflight programs, including astronaut recovery and the development of satellite technology for navigation and communication.
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The MQ-9B supported U.S. Navy exercises 2023 including Northern Edge, Integrated Battle Problem, and Group Sail.
NASA, the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Command, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency are improving Earth-observation measurement location accuracy to the millimeter with new laser retroreflector arrays (LRAs).
The 2023-11-15 test was executed in coordination with Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB).
ThayerMahan's maritime and undersea domain expertise includes experienced former US Navy submarine commanders, sonar operators, mine warfare specialists, and professional acoustics and software engineers.
The multi-intelligence MQ-4C Triton uncrewed aerial system achieved a declaration of initial operating capability by the U.S. Navy on 2023-08-03.
Diana Lovati is a U.S. Navy veteran, having served five years as an information systems technician and manager.
HawkEye 360 won a $12,200,000 contract from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific for maritime surveillance in the Pacific.
The Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific awarded HawkEye 360 a $12,250,000 contract to share satellite RF data, analytics, and training with partner nations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands using SeaVision.
HawkEye 360 won a $12.2 million, one-year contract from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific announced on 2023-10-31.
Horizon Technologies was awarded a £1.2 million grant by the UK Space Agency at an event at the Army-Navy Club in London on 11 October.
Hisdesat’s SATCOM solution used in Dynamic Messenger-23 is compatible with existing Spanish Navy ship communications systems and does not require changes to those systems.
Hisdesat provided managed satellite connectivity services to connect the Spanish Navy’s Maritime Action Ship Furor (BAM, P-46) with Navantia’s advanced tactical integration system for unmanned vehicles deployed ashore.
Interoperability tests for Mynaric’s terminals took place at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, which was selected by the Space Development Agency to oversee optical communications testing.
Northrop Grumman Australia is building a highly qualified and capable Australian workforce at RAAF Edinburgh and RAAF Tindal to leverage Northrop Grumman’s experience supporting U.S. Navy Triton operations.
CACI’s optical terminal successfully completed an interoperability test with a reference modem built by the Naval Research Laboratory for the SDA program.
The Naval Research Laboratory built an optical interoperability testbed for the Space Development Agency and produced a reference modem used for ground validation of vendor terminals.
In September 2021 the RQ-21 Blackjack variant of the Integrator successfully delivered various inert kinetic payloads for a U.S. Navy test program.
Leidos completed a migration of 20 critical support applications from an on-premise data center to Microsoft’s Azure Government cloud environment in support of the U.S. Navy.
As Director for Integration, Test and Launch with the Navy’s SPAWAR Space Field Activity Detachment, Shawn Hendricks managed cost, scheduling, and launch for reconnaissance satellite production and oversaw more than 600 engineers and technical specialists and $4,500,000,000 in critical defense assets.
The original mission for locating radio emitters was the US Navy’s Naval Ocean Surveillance System (NOSS).