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The Department of Defense is discussing how best to provide satellite communications to Ukraine with SpaceX and other companies.

Mentioned as: Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipOct 18, 2022Pentagon: It’s up to SpaceX to decide what to do about Starlink in Ukraine

The Pentagon has committed more than $18,200,000,000 in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including approximately $17,600,000,000 since Russia’s invasion.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipOct 18, 2022Pentagon: It’s up to SpaceX to decide what to do about Starlink in Ukraine

DARPA selected teams from academia and large and small commercial companies for Phase 1 of Space-BACN, including multiple performers receiving first-time contracts with the Department of Defense.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralOct 17, 2022DARPA selects 11 teams to develop LEO smallsat ‘Translator’ optical comms terminals

Dedrone serves nine U.S. federal agencies, including the Department of Defense.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralOct 17, 2022Dedrone Launches Counter-Drone Jammer for Urban Environments

The backbone of the hybrid network will be the Department of Defense Transport Layer, a constellation to be deployed by the Space Development Agency.

Mentioned as: the department of defenseTechnical ProductOct 13, 2022Starlink’s market dominance affecting DoD’s hybrid network plans

The Department of Defense cannot purchase Atlas V launches beyond 2022 because of a congressional ban on the use of Russian-built rocket engines.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipOct 12, 2022Amazon to launch two Project Kuiper satellites on Vulcan’s first flight

The Iridium network offers global, on-the-move, L-band connectivity for enhanced capabilities meeting Communications Security (COMSEC) requirements for the Department of Defense (DoD).

Mentioned as: Department of DefenseTechnical ProductOct 12, 2022New Iridium Certus Service Providers to support U.S. Government customers

ORBCOMM’s AIS data will be used in a maritime domain awareness software platform that supports key U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security agencies and U.S. partner nations.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseTechnical ProductOct 6, 2022ORBCOMM’s AIS Services selected for two U.S. Government Agency competitive contracts

York Space Systems was selected to provide spacecraft for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency Transport Layer Tranche 0 and Tranche 1.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipOct 4, 2022AEI claims majority stake in York Space Systems

The Department of Defense Space Test Program advances the maturation of space-based warfighter technologies across the DOD enterprise by providing space access solutions for all research-and-development-related DOD auxiliary payloads on DOD, civil, and commercial launches and for all non-DOD auxiliary payloads seeking launch opportunities on DOD missions.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNoiseOct 2, 2022SSC awards $29.9 Million to Northrop Grumman Systems for STP-S29A launch service

One U.S. Space Force objective supported by the VICTUS NOX OSP-4 award is supporting Department of Defense and other U.S. government agencies with flexible and innovative small launch capabilities.

Mentioned as: Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipSep 30, 2022SSC awards space and ground systems task and launch service orders for the VICTUS NOX mission

The Office of Space Commerce has a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Defense announced 2022-09-09 to aid development of civil space traffic management capabilities.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipSep 30, 2022Office of Space Commerce: FCC “aggressively” pushing limits of authority with orbital debris rule

Space is tightly coupled with everything the U.S. military does.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralSep 29, 2022Kendall: Power competition in space becoming more destabilizing

The COFFEE program aims to provide filter technology to improve performance of Department of Defense radio frequency and microwave systems with stringent power and size constraints.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative PlanSep 24, 2022BAE Systems to develop COFFEE filter technology

The Pentagon plans to end procurements of very large geosynchronous Earth orbit infrared satellites that provide initial warning of ballistic missile launches anywhere on the globe.

Mentioned as: The PentagonTechnical ProductSep 21, 2022DoD to end procurements of geosynchronous missile-warning satellites

Next-Gen OPIR will be the last GEO missile-warning satellites acquired by the Department of Defense.

Mentioned as: Department of DefenseTechnical ProductSep 21, 2022DoD to end procurements of geosynchronous missile-warning satellites

NROL-91 carries a national security payload designed, built, and operated by the National Reconnaissance Office to provide intelligence data to senior U.S. policymakers, the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Defense.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralSep 21, 2022ULA Delta IV set to launch the National Reconnaissance Office NROL-91 mission

Kayhan Space developed a collision-avoidance software platform that automatically tells a client satellite how to maneuver to avoid a threat and has over a dozen customers and Department of Defense small-business research grants but no government contracts to buy the service.

Mentioned as: Department of DefenseTechnical ProductSep 18, 2022Private industry aims to fill demand for space threat intelligence

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.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseNarrative GeneralSep 18, 2022Private industry aims to fill demand for space threat intelligence

The Department of Defense created the Space Development Agency in 2019 to field a missile-tracking network using large numbers of smaller, cheaper satellites in lower orbits.

Mentioned as: U.S. Department of DefenseOrg RelationshipSep 16, 2022New tri-agency office to coordinate U.S. missile-defense space programs
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