By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 12 May 2021 WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. Space Force wants the new service to take on a new mission: providing tactical satellite imagery to the joint forces. He didn’t explain whether that means the service would try to build its own
By Rocket Lab Monitor, 12 May, 2021 The New Zealand Government is accelerating the militarisation of space with official blessing for the launch of a US military satellite used to this week. The launch is a key enabler of the Joint Warfighting Concept, a new policy describing how the different arms
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 12 May 2021 Raymond: The Space Force and the Air Force are “actively working” on concepts for the deployment of GMTI satellites WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force wants to use small radar satellites to track moving objects on the ground and the Space
By Tara Copp, Published by Defense One, 12 May 2021 Ground Moving Target Indicator satellites would begin to replace decades-old aircraft as the newest service expands its mission set. A few years ago, the Air Force began looking at ways to replace its JSTARS surveillance aircraft, to ensure it could
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 11 May 2021 Projects will be co-funded by the government and contractors under “other transactions authority” agreements managed by the Space Enterprise Consortium WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force on May 11 issued three requests for industry proposals on technologies that the military will
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 11 May 2021 WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Northrop Grumman $13.3 million for continued work on a new satellite demonstration known as Blackjack, according to a recent contract announcement. Project Blackjack will demonstrate the military utility of a mesh network
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 10 May 2021 The company's software-defined Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) technology will offer military users an agile new signal from low Earth orbit (LEO) that is not dependent on existing satellite navigation systems," said Nicholas Paraskevopoulos, Northrop Grumman's chief technology officer. WASHINGTON:
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 8 May 2021 WASHINGTON — One of the top lawmakers in charge of the defense budget raised doubts Friday about whether the U.S. Space Force has lived up to its promise to reform the way it purchases space systems. While the nascent service has
