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Chicago-based SpiderOak won two U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research contracts in 2021 for OrbitSecure, an off-the-shelf product to enhance satellite and constellation cybersecurity.
The Space Force was purpose-built from the ground up with support from the U.S. Air Force, creating an operational partnership between the two services.
The Space Systems Command overhaul reverses the previous SMC 2.0 structure that the Air Force conceived in 2018 and completed by 2019.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. John 'Jay' Raymond and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall directed a review of Space Systems Command shortly after SSC was established in August 2021.
Space Force leaders unveiled details of the Space Systems Command reorganization at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium on 2024-03-04.
There is an urgent need to replace some aging legacy systems in the Air Force according to Frank Kendall.
Frank Kendall issued a list of budget priorities called 'operational imperatives' for the Air Force and Space Force to better compete with China.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall delivered remarks at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium on 2022-03-03.
Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall stated that the possibility of conflict in space is influencing military budget priorities for 2024.
Frank Kendall noted that the Air Force uses aging and vulnerable legacy systems like JSTARS and AWACS radar aircraft.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Xplore a $50,000 contract in 2020 to study positioning, navigation and timing solutions for cislunar space.
David Buck, president of BRPH Mission Solutions and a retired Air Force lieutenant general, predicted the Defense Department would eventually become comfortable using other commercial spaceports.
The Department of the Air Force implemented Next-Gen OPIR GEO Block 0 as a Go Fast acquisition program.
The U.S. Air Force spent $1,500,000,000 on the Space Fence space surveillance radar to track objects in low Earth orbit.
The Air Force’s 2018 budget request did not include funding for WGS satellites beyond the 10 already ordered from Boeing.
Virgin Galactic postponed a mission for the Italian Air Force and scheduled maintenance on VSS Unity and VMS Eve to last until the third quarter of 2022.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing a $605,000,000 contract in April 2019 to design and build WGS-11+.
In two U.S. Air Force demonstrations, Northrop Grumman partnered with Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to showcase that the SPOC solution can operate simultaneous waveforms with an Open Mission Systems (OMS) interface, an industry first.
Northrop Grumman was awarded a SPOC contract by the U.S. Air Force in January 2020.
Northrop Grumman’s SPOC solution provides the U.S. Air Force with an open architecture, advanced connectivity capability designed to address near-term JADC2 mission needs.