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The Department of Defense and the U.S. Space Force have created an ecosystem of organizations that fund research and prototyping projects, including the Defense Innovation Unit, SpaceWERX, AFWERX, and the Space Enterprise Consortium.
BRIDGES aims to provide companies that demonstrate innovation and value to the Department of Defense the means to obtain a facility clearance and interact directly with DoD customers at classified levels.
Rocket Lab was selected by Dynetics (Leidos) to provide hypersonic test launch capability under the Multiservice Advanced Capability Test Bed (MACH-TB) project awarded by Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Orbital Sidekick has government contracts to supply hyperspectral data to the United States Department of Defense through partnerships with In-Q-Tel, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Space Force.
WGS provides the Department of Defense with a broad majority of tactical communications traffic through the constellation.
Rocket Lab was selected by Dynetics to provide hypersonic test launch capability under the Multiservice Advanced Capability Test Bed (MACH-TB) project awarded by Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Lamborn believes that public knowledge of the seriousness of threats will clarify why the DoD is investing billions in countering these threats.
Failure to access satellite services could have severe consequences for the U.S. military, according to officials.
Lamborn believes the Defense Department should start more open discussions about national security challenges in the space domain.
DoD organizations can procure launch services from Rocket Lab via DIU’s Solutions Catalog due to the prototype’s success.
Orbital Sidekick has secured government contracts to supply hyperspectral data to the United States Department of Defense through partnerships with In-Q-Tel, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Space Force.
The Air Force directed in 2016 that the Pentagon stop using launch vehicles powered by Russian engines and allowed DoD Atlas 5 contracts only through 2022.
The Defense Department will provide Aerojet Rocketdyne $215,600,000 to expand rocket propulsion manufacturing facilities to speed production of missiles for Ukraine.
The DoD funding agreement with Aerojet Rocketdyne was announced on 2023-04-14.
The Pentagon budgeted $529,000,000 in 2024 to launch five batches of satellites to low Earth orbit for the Space Development Agency, with an additional 11 SDA missions worth $1,400,000,000 planned for 2025 to 2028.
The Pentagon’s 2024 budget request includes $2,100,000,000 for 10 NSSL missions and forecasts 30 additional NSSL missions worth $8,400,000,000 for 2025 to 2028.
The United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur vehicle must complete two orbital flights before certification for national security launches and the Vulcan program received nearly $1,000,000,000 in Pentagon investment for development.
NSSL Phase 3 aims to procure reliable launch services for traditional military and intelligence heavy-lift missions while seeking smaller, medium-size rockets for a proliferated Pentagon constellation in low Earth orbit.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks supports DoD’s industrial base office moving forward with urgency to support strategic industrial sectors crucial to national security.
Boeing unveiled a new version of the U.S. military’s Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite on 2023-04-13 that includes a new payload designed under a U.S. Space Force contract.