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Microsoft Azure won the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud services contract last year, a contract worth up to $10,000,000,000.
Congress directed the Department of Defense to move the Space Development Agency to the U.S. Space Force by 2022.
The Department of Defense has tasked the Space Development Agency with providing a transport layer of satellites in low Earth orbit to serve as the future communications backbone for the military’s command-and-control networks.
The 2021 NDAA bill requires the Department of Defense to complete the nonrecurring design validation of previously flown launch hardware for National Security Space Launch providers that offer such hardware no later than 540 days after selection of Phase 2 providers.
The Department of Defense stood up the Space Development Agency in March 2019 under Mike Griffin’s office.
A team at the Pentagon reviews data on a weekly basis to decide which companies should receive contracts funded under the Defense Production Act.
Since April 2020 the Pentagon has awarded $472,000,000 in contracts aimed at boosting domestic industries such as medical equipment, shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, and textiles.
The draft bill requests the Department of Defense provide a detailed report on the cost and requirements for deep-space missions for national security, specifically cislunar space activities beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit near the moon’s orbit.
The 2021 draft National Defense Authorization Act is heavy on nuclear weapons policy and missile defense and raises questions about the Department of Defense’s use of commercial space technology, its acquisition strategy for satellite-based communications, and the future plans of the Space Development Agency.
The 2020 NDAA directed the National Reconnaissance Office to submit a report on commercial space-based radio frequency mapping, and the 2021 draft bill directs the Chief of Operations of the Space Force to deliver an assessment of how U.S. commercial space-based radio frequency capabilities could support the U.S. military.
Congress directed the Department of Defense to transfer the Space Development Agency to the U.S. Space Force by October 2022.
Aevum, Astra, X-Bow, Rocket Lab, Space Vector, and VOX Space were selected to receive Defense Department contracts funded under the Defense Production Act to shore up domestic industries impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Defense released an updated Defense Space Strategy on 2020-06-17 that replaces the 2011 space strategy issued during the Obama administration.
The Department of Defense released a strategy document on June 17 addressing the implications of the new space race for national security.
The Defense Space Strategy provides guidance to the Department of Defense for achieving desired conditions in space over the next 10 years.
The Department of Defense will work to maintain space superiority, provide space capabilities to U.S. and allied forces, and ensure stability in space.
The Defense Space Strategy builds on the 2018 National Defense Strategy by directing the U.S. military to prepare to compete with rising military powers such as China and Russia.
The Phase 2 competition will award two contracts in the summer of 2020 to launch Department of Defense and intelligence agency satellites starting in 2022.
The Department of Defense has an opportunity to leverage innovation and cost-effective investments driven by the private sector.
The Department of Defense has committed to transferring the Space Development Agency to the Space Force by 2022-10-01.