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Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI) is a Space Force program focused on integrating training enterprise capabilities with advanced technologies.
The U.S. Space Force awarded a $27 million contract to Slingshot Aerospace to modernize scenario training activities.
Slingshot Aerospace is building TALOS and supporting infrastructure to integrate with complementary training systems, data sources, and AI capabilities across the Space Force.
The contract advances the Space Force’s Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI) program toward integrating existing training enterprise capabilities with AI-native technology.
The merged company aims to deliver agile and resilient systems for the U.S. Space Force, the Missile Defense Agency, and NASA.
Muon Space was awarded a 44.6 million dollar US Space Force SBIR Phase III Other Transaction Agreement in 2025 to demonstrate a dual-use environmental monitoring constellation.
The U.S. Space Force SBIR Phase III project involves a three-satellite prototype demonstration focused on cloud characterization and theater weather imagery to support military planning in contested environments.
The Space Force frames its growing network of service components as central to improving readiness, enhancing joint lethality, and ensuring specialized space capabilities are embedded with combatant commands charged with defending U.S. interests and the homeland.
SPACEFOR-NORTH is the seventh Space Force service component to stand up since November 2020 when Space Forces Indo-Pacific was activated.
Under Space Forces Indo-Pacific, the Space Force established subordinate components Space Forces Korea in December 2022 and Space Forces Japan in December 2024.
The Space Force is on track to field service components in every combatant command to posture the service to employ space forces and expertise to deter conflict and, if necessary, help win future wars.
With the activation of SPACEFOR-NORTH, the Space Force now fields six other service components, including Space Forces Indo-Pacific and Space Forces Central, which were activated in November and December 2022 respectively, and Space Forces Space and Space Forces Europe-Africa, both activated in December 2023.
Muon Space secured a $44.6 million SBIR Phase III contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop a dual-use space-based environmental monitoring capability.
SPACEFOR-NORTH serves as the U.S. Space Force service component to U.S. Northern Command.
On January 9, 2026 the Space Force awarded $739 million in task orders under NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1.
Space Force service components are designed to deliver regionally tailored space effects to geographic and functional combatant commanders to increase joint force lethality, protect freedom of maneuver, enable deterrence, and support mission requirements across their areas of responsibility.
The USSF-87 launch is scheduled no earlier than February 12, 2026, with liftoff around 08:00 UTC.
United Launch Alliance is rolling out the fairing for USSF-87 to Space Launch Complex 41 for stacking atop the Vulcan launch vehicle.
The USSF-87 payload includes two GSSAP satellites and an ESPA ring carrying smaller payloads.
A Vulcan rocket has arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base for the first Vulcan launch from the West Coast.