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Planet Federal expanded its contract with the National Reconnaissance Office to provide the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community continued access to Planet’s daily, unclassified satellite data.
The U.S. Defense Department has relied for decades on geosynchronous communications satellites stationed 36,0 m above the equator.
LEO satellite systems offer reduced latency and increased bandwidth compared with traditional GEO services, which Defense Department users seek.
The U.S. Space Force is preparing the Defense Department to acquire services from commercial LEO satcom providers and future constellations not yet deployed.
OneWeb supplies its own user terminals and has teamed with antenna manufacturer Kymeta to develop a terminal that can communicate with LEO and GEO satellites for the DoD market.
The Department of Defense announced on 2025-11-10 that the award to Space Dynamics Laboratory was a sole-source, non-competed contract.
The collaboration aims to adapt commercial 0.005 kg technology to meet tactical communications needs in terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks operated by the Department of Defense.
Momentus attempted to launch its first Vigoride tugs in January 2021 and June 2021 on SpaceX rideshare missions but the Federal Aviation Administration rejected the payload review for the vehicle due to Defense Department concerns about the company’s Russian co-founders and owners.
Capella Space will begin installing optical communications terminals on its synthetic-aperture radar satellites in 2022 to deliver data to Department of Defense customers via the Space Development Agency’s low Earth orbit constellation.
OneWeb and Leonardo DRS created a partnership to jointly offer a LEO service to the U.S. Department of Defense.
McQ has been supplying the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, and other U.S. government agencies and commercial customers with security and surveillance systems for over 35 years.
AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. announced that its subsidiary, senseFly, has been named to the Blue sUAS 2.0 list by the US Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).
Maxar Technologies challenged the Defense Department procurement of 126 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1 due to the financial burden on contractors.
The Defense Department’s Space Development Agency canceled a solicitation issued 2021-08-30 for 126 satellites and reopened a new procurement on 2021-10-28.
DISA is implementing the Thunderdome program to improve the zero-trust environment and protect Department of Defense data in cloud-based environments.
Since becoming SDA director two years ago, Derek Tournear has focused the agency on acquiring and deploying systems at a faster pace than is typical in Pentagon programs.
The Department of Defense successfully tested the Common Hypersonic Glide Body on 2020-03-20.
York Space Systems is building communications satellites for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency under a $94,000,000 contract awarded in 2020.
Space Policy Directive 3 directed the Department of Commerce to take over civil space traffic management from the Department of Defense in 2018.
Viasat Inc. was awarded a Department of Defense contract to provide vulnerability assessment testing and response support under a new DoD pilot program focused on improving the cybersecurity and resilience of DoD weapon systems.