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LinQuest will expand support across its lines of business to the U.S. Space Force and the broader space community under the new contract.
The U.S. Space Force awarded a $2,400,000,000 contract to Northrop Grumman for two Next-Gen OPIR polar orbit satellites.
The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) achieved a milestone on 2020-09-30 when the GPS Foreign Military Sales (FMS) office received its first M-code MGUE order.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Altamira Technologies a prototype project contract valued at $8,500,000 for the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data Processing Applications Provider.
Starting next year, the U.S. Space Force will allow SpaceX to use previously flown Falcon 9 boosters to launch military GPS satellites for the first time.
The White House request indicated that without the anomaly most Space Force activities during the continuing resolution period would be funded from Air Force accounts, requiring manual adjustments of obligations and disbursements and creating administrative burden that would adversely impact Space Force mission execution.
The Space Force plans to deploy new early warning satellites under the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program with the first satellite projected to launch in 2025.
Clint Crosier, a retired U.S. Air Force Major General who helped establish and provided early guidance to the U.S. Space Force, will lead AWS’s Aerospace and Satellite Solutions division.
The U.S. Space Force plans to deploy five Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) missile-warning satellites by 2029.
The satcom strategy titled "United States Space Force Vision for Satellite Communications" was approved by Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond on 2020-01-23.
The U.S. Space Force unveiled a plan on 2020-02-19 to change how it acquires satellite-based communications for the Defense Department.
A team of U.S. military and civilian defense officials spent most of 2019 drawing up plans to create a U.S. Space Force as a new service branch within the Department of the Air Force.
Space Force planning teams have been working on new uniform designs, a Space Force logo, and a Space Force seal, and details were briefed to President Trump on 2020-01-15 by Gen. John Raymond, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett.
The Pentagon blueprint submitted to Congress creates a new Space Force branch of about 15,000 people mostly by transferring personnel from the other services.
The open letter states that the U.S. Space Force will develop military space culture and ethos; recruit, train, educate, promote, and retain scientists, engineers, and warriors with world-class space skills and talent; advocate for space requirements and resources; develop space doctrine and operational art; develop, field, and deliver advanced space capabilities; and steward resources to sustain America’s strategic advantage and preeminence in national security space activities.
The Department of Defense plans to build the Space Force mostly with existing resources by transferring personnel from the Air Force, Navy, and Army.
Starting in 2021, as many as 10,000 people could be moved to the Space Force along with $8,000,000,000 worth of space programs, most of which are currently owned by the Air Force.
The Pentagon projects the Space Force would reach a size of 12,000 to 15,000 people, most of whom would come from existing organizations.
The National Space Council meeting two days before 2018-10-25 was devoted almost entirely to national security space and plans to create the Space Force.