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The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force provide about 80% of all Department of Defense resources in the Arctic region, including military bases, training complexes, satellites, command-and-control stations, and early warning and missile defense radars.
Virgin Orbit’s next planned space launch is the U.S. military STP-28A Space Test Program mission projected to fly no earlier than 2022-06-29 from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
DoD approved four evaluation factors recommended by the Air Force to assess six candidate locations for U.S. Space Command headquarters.
The IG concluded that the 2020 Basing Action process complied with Federal Law and DoD policy.
The Department of Defence selected Gilmour Space Technologies to develop and launch a sovereign surveillance satellite as part of the government’s new space capabilities investment.
Air Force Gen. John Hyten attributed $40,000,000,000 in Defense Department savings to competition enabled by SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.
The Service Provider Registry is designed to provide a structured, authoritative catalog of commercial and military SATCOM services that can be allocated to fulfill Department of Defense SATCOM mission requirements.
Frank Calvelli’s prepared testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee stated that the establishment of the U.S. Space Force provided the Department of Defense an opportunity to take a fresh look at how to equip the force with new capabilities for the future fight and that the commercial sector is at the forefront of technologies such as artificial intelligence, edge computing, and machine learning.
The Department of Defense budget documents estimate more than $10,000,000,000 will be spent on national security space launch over five years, with 35 missions projected from fiscal year 2023 through 2027.
The OADR will be used to provide services such as conjunction warnings that are currently handled by the Department of Defense.
Ronald Moultrie seeks a genuine partnership between the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies and the commercial geospatial intelligence industry to develop and iterate solutions for operational challenges.
Currently only Northrop Grumman and Aerojet Rocketdyne are supplying solid rocket motors to the U.S. Department of Defense.
L3Harris won Basic Order Agreements from the Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Data Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Development program, a five-year program with a $242,000,000 ceiling.
The Federal Communications Commission granted Ligado permission in April 2020 to use its satellite L-band spectrum terrestrially following a four-year proceeding despite opposition from the Pentagon and other government agencies.
John D. Hill, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and missile defense, and Cho Yong-geun, South Korea’s defense ministry director of North Korea policy, reached a space security agreement during the 2022-04-25 session of the Space Cooperation Working Group in Washington.
The GPS Source APNT systems support the Department of Defense’s ongoing GPS modernization program and will provide Patriot missile radars, launchers, and command and control systems with a stronger, more accurate GPS signal to protect them against potential jamming or electronic warfare attacks.
Since 2000, GPS Source has provided GPS distribution and validation equipment to the U.S. military.
Consumers of satellite imagery include first responders, the Department of Defense, and the Intelligence Community.
Victoria Samson, Washington office director of the Secure World Foundation, cited the U.S. test ban alongside the Department of Defense’s July 2021 tenets of responsible space behavior as contributing to limits on the creation of long-lived space debris.
These activities are critical for demonstrating the feasibility of rapid launch operations and increasing the technology readiness level for DOD launch capabilities.