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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Earlier in 2021 Viasat and the Navy Exchange Service Command’s Telecommunications Program Office agreed to a five-year contract extension for Viasat to provide managed internet, Wi-Fi, voice and other services supporting personal use networks at Navy facilities worldwide.
China is developing an air-launched anti-ship ballistic missile, designated CH-AS-X-13, intended for the People’s Liberation Army Navy H-6 bombers and large enough to accommodate a hypersonic warhead.
Mike Slagh served as a bomb disposal officer in the Navy.
Capella Space established relationships in the last year with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the Space Development Agency.
Dr. Gladys West was offered a position in 1956 with Virginia’s Naval Proving Ground, now called the Naval Surface Warfare Center.
The U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs and the U.S. Army Hypersonic Program Office conducted a High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on 2021-10-20.
Capella Space signed and maintained contracts with the US Navy, US Air Force, National Geospatial Agency, In-Q-Tel, the Space Development Agency, and the US Space Force to provide on-demand, high-resolution SAR data and analytics for the US government.
The two MQ-9A Reaper Block 5 aircraft were operated by the U.S. Marine Corps since 2018 under a Company Owned/Company Operated (COCO) lease agreement between GA-ASI and Naval Air Systems Command.
Orbital Micro Systems is preparing to launch an updated version of its GEMS satellite called GEMS2 in 2022 with microwave radiometers designed and manufactured by OMS with support from the U.S. Air Force, Space Force, Navy, Lockheed Martin, and the UK Space Agency.
The next GEMS2 satellites, being readied for launch in early 2022, carry microwave radiometers designed and manufactured by OMS with support from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, U.S. Navy, Lockheed Martin, and the UK Space Agency.
The transfers of Army and Navy SATCOM responsibilities to the U.S. Space Force are scheduled to be effective as of 2021-10-01 if the Department of Defense budget is passed and signed.
Boeing will build the U.S. Navy’s newest carrier-based aircraft at a new high-tech facility in Illinois.
Boeing will build the MQ-25 Stingray, the U.S. Navy’s first operational carrier-based unmanned aircraft, at the new Illinois facility.
The majority of the more than 70 MQ-25 aircraft the U.S. Navy intends to procure will be built in the new Illinois facility.
As the joint venture WMR-532, Optimal GEO and Woolpert collected, processed, and delivered topographic and bathymetric lidar data and imagery for the Naval Oceanographic Office.
The Department of Defense requested $434,000,000 in its budget proposal for M-code-compatible GPS receiver cards for Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps platforms.
The U.S. Navy awarded L3Harris $18,000,000 as part of the Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP).
The U.S. Navy has deployed more than 150 ULV systems to date under CBSP.
2021’s CBSP award will provide the Navy with 16 new units and work on those units is expected to be completed later 2021.
The U.S. Space Force selected 50 members of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps to transfer to the space branch on 2021-06-30.