By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 14 February 2022 Faced with duplication and delays, DARPA weighs how its proliferated satellite demonstration can still make an impact WASHINGTON — Project Blackjack started as a bold idea. Instead of relying on a small handful of satellites operating 20,000 miles above Earth, what
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 10 February 2022 On-board, or "edge," processing is key to SDA's plans to develop a satellite network that can gather data from multiple sensors on the ground, at sea and in space to provide operators with precise, near-real-time targeting information. WASHINGTON: A foundational
By Nathan Strout, Published by Defense News, 4 January 2022 WASHINGTON – Raytheon Intelligence & Space has tapped Kristin Robertson to lead its space and command and control business. She joins Raytheon from Boeing, where she has worked for 27 years, serving most recently as the vice president and general
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 23 December 2021 WASHINGTON — The U.S. military wants to directly plug commercial imagery satellites into its forthcoming orbital networks, enabling soldiers in the field to access that data faster. The military has become increasingly interested in using satellite imagery to extend its situational
By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 11 December 2021 Parsons won a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 award for a 'Blackjack Prototype Ground Operations Center' WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Parsons a $10.8 million contract to prototype a ground operations center for the agency’s
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 7 September, 2021 The technology developed in the Blackjack program also is supporting the Space Development Agency's low Earth orbit constellation WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency increased Lockheed Martin’s contract for satellite integration work for the Blackjack program by $25.3 million,
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:
