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U.S. Air Force

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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Northrop Grumman completed ground tests in December of technology for space-based solar power and plans a space demonstration in 2025 under a contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipJan 20, 2023ESA seeks global adoption of “zero debris” policy

Raytheon BBN was awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to develop a rocket cargo mission planning and Command and Control system for the USAF.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralJan 18, 2023Raytheon I&S developing mission planning + C2 systems for USAF

Raytheon Intelligence & Space won a four-year, $8,700,000 contract on 2023-01-17 to develop mission planning software for the U.S. Air Force rocket cargo program.

Mentioned as: air forceOrg RelationshipJan 17, 2023Raytheon to develop planning software for military cargo missions that would fly on space rockets

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) was awarded a $406,000,000 contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate for the Intelligence Systems Infrastructure, Tools and Enhancements (InSITE) program.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipJan 17, 2023Northrop Grumman to modernize + advance the AFRL’s intelligence information gathering process

The optical sensors were developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory under a 2019 agreement with the U.S. Air Force.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipJan 17, 2023U.S. delivers first of two space sensors to be hosted on Japanese satellites

The U.S. Air Force began collecting weather imagery in 2020 with the former GOES-13 satellite, which NOAA launched in 2006 and retired in 2018.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralJan 12, 2023U.S. Space Force considers a second NOAA weather satellite

BAE Systems received a $12,000,000 Phase 2 contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to further develop a low-cost, all-weather, multi-mode (radar/infrared) open-architecture seeker under the Maritime Weapon Innovation Program Joint Capability Technology Demonstration.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipJan 12, 2023Air Force Research Laboratory Selects BAE Systems to Develop Advanced Seeker

Most of the training infrastructure used by the Space Force was inherited from the Air Force.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralJan 12, 2023U.S. Space Force chief: Russia’s missteps in Ukraine serve as a cautionary tale

Cognitive Space has seen increased interest from the Air Force and other entities.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralJan 10, 2023Geospatial industry investor Keith Masback joins board of directors of Cognitive Space

COSMIC-2 is a joint program of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, Taiwan’s National Space Organization, NOAA, and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research that launched in 2019.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralJan 10, 2023Ball Aerospace enters final stages of building USSF’s WSF-M satellite

Rogers and Cooper wrote the language to establish a Space Corps under the Department of the Air Force in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.

Mentioned as: the department of the air forceNarrative GeneralJan 10, 2023Rep. Mike Rogers named chairman of House Armed Services Committee

Steven Kwast retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2019 after serving 33 years.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralJan 10, 2023Steven Kwast, a retired U.S. Air Force general, is Skycorp’s new CEO

Jack Shelton and a group of space attorneys, in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory, are establishing the Association of Commercial Space Professionals as a public benefit company to offer affordable regulatory and legal resources for space startups.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralJan 4, 2023Bootcamp to help space startups clear regulatory hurdles

The SWOT satellite was launched on 2022-12-16, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralJan 1, 2023Flann Microwave assists with NASA’s SWOT satellite development

The U.S. Air Force had planned to buy only 10 Wideband Global Satellite (WGS) satellites but Congress compelled the service to buy WGS-11 and is adding funds 2022 presumably to buy WGS-12.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipDec 24, 2022Congress adds $1.7 billion for U.S. Space Force in 2023 spending bill

The 2023 NDAA does not authorize a Space National Guard and would consider establishing the Space Force as a single component with full-time and part-time members as proposed by Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralDec 24, 2022Congress adds $1.7 billion for U.S. Space Force in 2023 spending bill

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Northrop Grumman a $100,000,000 contract in 2018 to develop a payload to demonstrate key components of a prototype space solar power system.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman clears key hurdle for space-based solar power

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory launched an experiment in 2020 aboard the Air Force’s X-37B space plane that captured sunlight and converted it into direct current electrical energy.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman clears key hurdle for space-based solar power

An agreement signed on 2022-05-03 with the Brazilian Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DCTA) under the Brazilian Air Force specifies that HANBIT-TLV will carry onboard the SISNAV inertial navigation system during a test flight.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipDec 20, 2022UPDATE: 2nd delay for South Korea’s INNOSPACE’s first test flight of the HANBIT-TLV rocket

The SWOT satellite launched on 2022-12-16 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralDec 20, 2022Flann Microwave’s custom waveguide hardware provided to NASA/JPL for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite
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