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Aerojet Rocketdyne is executing a $215,600,000 cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense to expand and modernize facilities at its Camden, Arkansas site.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipMay 18, 2024Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Camden site leverages investments to accelerate SRM production

The U.S. Department of Defense released an updated classification policy earlier 2024 that expands access to information within the U.S. government and reduces barriers to space integration with allies, partners, and commercial space actors.

Mentioned as: department of defenseNarrative GeneralMay 16, 2024Satellogic expands reach: New sales channel through Global Data Marketplace

EchoStar subsidiary Hughes Network Systems and EchoStar brand Boost Mobile will provide 0.005 kg wireless services and devices to support Department of Defense usage in all 50 United States and U.S. territories and for temporary duty international travel.

Mentioned as: department of defenseTechnical ProductMay 15, 2024EchoStar awarded a U.S. Navy contract to provide 5G smart devices + services for DoD + others

The contract is funded through the Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program, a Pentagon initiative funded by Congress to invest in small businesses and startups with promising technologies.

Mentioned as: PentagonTechnical ProductMay 14, 2024Tomorrow.io gets DoD contract to launch two microwave weather sensor satellites

Tomorrow.io was awarded a $10,200,000 contract from the Department of Defense to produce and deploy two satellites equipped with microwave sounders for military weather forecasting.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipMay 14, 2024Tomorrow.io gets DoD contract to launch two microwave weather sensor satellites

Portal Space Systems received more than $3,000,000 in funding from the Department of Defense and the United States Space Force to support development and launch of the Supernova satellite bus.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipMay 11, 2024Portal Space Systems receives million$+ in DoD + USSF awards

There are ongoing challenges in aligning the Defense Department's urgency for direct satellite tasking with the intelligence community's processes.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNoiseMay 10, 2024Pentagon space policy chief weighs in on disputes over battlefield intelligence

John Plumb is the first Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretary for Space Policy at the Department of Defense, a position Congress established in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralMay 10, 2024Defense space policy chief calls Russia’s space nuke threat “a thing apart”

iDirect Government was founded in 2007 and has supported the Department of Defense and other agencies.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralMay 10, 2024iDirect Government partners with Tampa Microwave for MILSATCOM readiness solution

The U.S. military is developing a new satellite constellation called Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) for tracking moving targets.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralMay 10, 2024Pentagon space policy chief weighs in on disputes over battlefield intelligence

Plumb indicated that the processes of the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community do not align well, creating friction.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralMay 10, 2024Pentagon space policy chief weighs in on disputes over battlefield intelligence

The U.S. military and the intelligence community are developing a new constellation of satellites known as Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) to track moving targets on the ground.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralMay 8, 2024Military surveillance constellation fuels debate over who calls the shots

AeroVironment has invested in production capability and capacity to produce large volumes of Switchblade 600 at a reliability level the U.S. Department of Defense expects.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipMay 8, 2024AV’s Switchblade 600 selected for Tranche 1 of DoD’s Replicator initiative

The National Space Council is working with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Department of Defense stakeholders to understand current issues in national security space.

Mentioned as: Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipMay 8, 2024National Space Council will explore military space and intelligence roles and responsibilities

Shift5 achieved its first cross-platform Authority to Operate (ATO) certification from the U.S. Department of Defense in April 2023.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipMay 8, 2024GA-ASI and Shift5 to bring cyber anomaly detection and predictive maintenance into MQ-9A Reaper

Ken Handelman, director of defense intelligence at the Department of Defense for Intelligence and Security, noted the strategic necessity of expanded capabilities from space due to pacing threats in the Pacific.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralMay 8, 2024Military surveillance constellation fuels debate over who calls the shots

The Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture is a layered low-Earth orbit satellite constellation designed to deliver secure, low-latency communications and missile tracking capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralMay 7, 2024CesiumAstro Selected by Rocket Lab to Provide Multi-Beam Ka-Band Communications Payloads for its Space Development Agency Tranche 2 Transport Layer Constellation

Project Maven experienced political and media controversy in 2018 when Google employees raised ethical objections to Google providing an open-source machine learning library used by the Pentagon.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralMay 7, 2024Geospatial intelligence gets smart

The NRO works with mission partners including the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Department of Defense, and the broader intelligence community to integrate commercial capabilities.

Mentioned as: Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipMay 7, 2024NRO expands commercial partnerships

Rocket Lab selected suppliers on 2024-05-06 to support production of 18 satellites for the U.S. military.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipMay 6, 2024Rocket Lab announces supplier agreements for military satellite project
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