Proposed Space Development Agency funding boost falls short of earlier request

By Courtney Albon, Published by C4ISRNET, 9 March 2022 An artist's depiction of L3Harris' tracking layer satellite, which will be part of a solution designed by the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency to track and target hypersonic weapons from space. (L3Harris) WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency

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Lockheed, Northrop choose payloads for Space Force missile warning satellites

By Courtney Albon, Published by C4ISRNET, 1 March 2022 WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman announced Tuesday they have selected payload providers for their respective segments of the Space Force’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program. Both companies are on contract to build a portion of the first block of

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Pentagon’s POET in space wraps orbital data fusion demo

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

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The Space Force is developing a new ground system to exploit data from space-based infrared sensors. Credit: TAP lab

SciTec gets $5 million Space Force contract to process data from missile-warning satellites

By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 7 February 2022 The nine-month contract is to process data from SBIRS sensors in highly elliptical orbit WASHINGTON — SciTec won a $5 million contract from the Space Force to develop a software application that analyzes data from U.S. missile-warning satellites, the company announced

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