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Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall stated that space is a no man's land where each side has the other side under observation.
Kendall issued a list of focus areas for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, with the first being a resilient space order of battle.
Some of the roughly 1,500 Air National Guard personnel who support space operations could choose to join the Space Force, while those who do not might be reassigned to support Air Force units.
Concurrent Technologies Corporation was awarded a $5,200,000 contract by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to build the world’s largest additive manufacturing machine.
United Launch Alliance launched a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite on a Delta 4 Heavy rocket on 2022-09-24 at 3:25 p.m. Pacific from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
Space Launch Complex-6 was originally built in the 1960s to launch the Air Force’s never-flown Manned Orbital Laboratory.
L3Harris is building a navigation satellite for the U.S. Air Force using a Northrop Grumman bus that is projected to launch in 2023.
When the U.S. Air Force announced in 2018 it would stop buying SBIRS satellites and acquire Next-Gen OPIR, officials argued that the new satellites would be less costly and more survivable than SBIRS.
Katalyst received U.S. Air Force small business innovation research funding to develop software that characterizes objects in orbit using advanced algorithms to assist with attribution.
An Air Force Space Command memo in 2019 directed the Department of Defense to use the term space domain awareness to convey that the military views space as a domain of war similar to sea, air, and land.
The U.S. Space Force, established in December 2019, took over from the U.S. Air Force the development and procurement of geostationary missile-warning satellites.
The F-15 Eagle is the second U.S. Air Force fighter platform to receive DIGAR GPS upgrades following the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
The U.S. Air Force started the FORGE program in 2019 to serve as the ground system for the current SBIRS constellation and Next-Gen OPIR satellites.
Saber Astronautics previously received a $1,800,000 U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research award in 2019 to develop Space Cockpit.
Space Cockpit was developed on the U.S. Air Force’s Platform One enterprise system using DevSecOps standards.
Ursa Major won a $3,600,000 U.S. Air Force contract to support development of the company’s Hadley liquid engine for small launch vehicles.
The Air Force qualification campaign will seek to demonstrate that Hadley operates safely and reliably within the power level and mixture ratio required for missions of Department of Defense interest.
The $3,600,000 Air Force contract is a small business innovation research contract known as a TACFI, or Tactical Funding Increase, that includes both government and private funds.
The MoU brings together AAI and LFV as two air navigation service providers to explore smart aviation solutions.
The Air Force signed a $1,900,000 contract to provide Starlink services to military bases.