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The operation involved assets from the Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Air National Guard.
Stilsoft's main customers include Russian security agencies such as the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs, National Guard, and Federal Security Service (FSB).
The tests conducted by Electra.aero were supported by units of the National Guard.
Trump is likely to revive efforts to establish a Space National Guard despite concerns about cost and bureaucracy.
Red Cat Holdings, Inc. is fulfilling an order by the Florida Army National Guard for the company’s Teal 2 drones.
The Army National Guard ordered 12 Gray Eagle 25M unmanned aircraft systems funded by 2023 congressional appropriations.
The Space Force forecasts a $45,000,000 to $55,000,000 contract opportunity for National Guard Bureau C4I satellite services.
Sen. Marco Rubio and a bipartisan group of 11 senators reintroduced the Space National Guard Establishment Act of 2024 on 2024-01-31.
The NDAA does not establish a Space National Guard and directs a feasibility study on the consolidation or transfer of space functions of the National Guard to the Space Force.
Rivada Networks previously provided emergency communication services in the United States to customers including the National Guard and leading police forces.
The final 2024 NDAA deferred the decision to establish a separate Space National Guard and directed further study on the issue.
The 2024 NDAA directs a review on potentially transferring existing Air National Guard space units into the U.S. Space Force.
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2024 NDAA does not include language to establish a Space National Guard, unlike the House Armed Services Committee’s version.
The Department of the Air Force drafted a March 2021 report recommending establishing a Space National Guard with minimal or no new cost and transferring space-duty units under the Air National Guard.
When the U.S. Space Force was established in December 2019, active duty space units were moved out of the Air Force and placed in the Space Force without creating a corresponding Space National Guard component.
The Air National Guard provides 60% of the deployable space electromagnetic warfare units that support U.S. combatant commands around the world.
The Air National Guard has roughly 1,000 members who perform space operations duties such as controlling communications and missile warning satellites and operating electronic warfare systems.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated in 2020 that establishing space guard units in every U.S. state and territory would cost between $100,000,000 and $900 million, factoring in new buildings and significant staff growth at the National Guard Bureau.
House members Jason Crow (D-Colo.) and Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) introduced a new version of the Space National Guard bill 2023-05 that would establish space units in seven states and Guam.
On 2022-12-22, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. and the Air National Guard, with joint support from the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force, flight tested an MQ-9A remotely piloted aircraft equipped with a Low Earth Orbit satellite communications Command and Control system.