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L3Harris Technologies completed a technology demonstration under a Defense Innovation Unit prototype contract for the U.S. Space Force satellite communication system.
The Space and Missile Systems Center is developing a strategy to transition from the ongoing prototype effort to a follow-on program that can deploy a long-term multi-band multi-mission solution for the Satellite Control Network.
The U.S. Space Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Enterprise will focus on providing technical intelligence to defend space systems from anti-satellite weapons developed by China and Russia.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond established the U.S. Space Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Enterprise to support the intelligence community.
The U.S. Space Force became the 18th member of the U.S. intelligence community on 2021-01-08.
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 plans to develop intelligence analysts at a future National Space Intelligence Center to be stood up at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
The Landsat-9 EFS joint effort is a NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center activity funded and manifested by the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Mission Manifest Office at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California.
The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Lockheed Martin a $2,900,000,000 contract in August 2018 for development of the three GEO Next-Gen OPIR satellites.
The three geosynchronous Next-Gen OPIR satellites will be operated by the U.S. Space Force to provide initial warning of a ballistic or tactical missile launch anywhere on the globe.
The Space and Missile Systems Center increased authorized funding for SpEC to $12,000,000,000 of projects over the next 10 years.
The Space and Missile Systems Center intended to award the Space Enterprise Consortium management contract to NSTXL on 2020-12-31 but has delayed the award to further evaluate litigation involving NSTXL.
The fiscal year 2021 appropriations package includes $15,200,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force.
Although NROL-108 is a U.S. government mission, it was commercially procured and not part of the U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch program, and NROL-76 in 2017 was similarly commercially procured.
The U.S. Space Force was established on 2019-12-20.
An event marking the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Space Force was held on 2020-12-18 at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
The Space and Missile Systems Center created the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) in 2017 to attract commercial space companies to bid on military projects.
The U.S. Space Force was established on 2019-12-20 as the nation’s first new military branch since the Air Force was established in 1947.
Pending a 30-day congressional notification period, the Space and Missile Systems Center plans to award the SpEC management agreement on 2020-12-31.
NSTXL (National Security Technology Accelerator) has been selected to manage the U.S. Space Force’s Space Enterprise Consortium for the next 10 years.