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
By Theresa Hitchens, Publishd by Breaking Defense, 22 February 2022 Missile Defense Agency pushes back, pointing Breaking Defense to positive report from Pentagon tester, laudatory comments from senior military officials and recent test wins. WASHINGTON: A new study of US missile defenses has found that — after 70 years and
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 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
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 27 January 2022 Col. Rhet Turnbull: 'Unfortunately, like so many DoD software programs, JMS failed to deliver after 10 years and a lot of money' WASHINGTON — The Space Force has closed down the last remaining piece of the Joint Mission System (JMS), a
By Aaron Bateman, Published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 21 January 2022 As companies and countries clamor to launch satellites and manned spacecraft, space is getting ever more crowded. And because satellites play increasingly important roles in military operations, multiple governments are developing anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons. But debris generated
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 12 January 2022 WASHINGTON: The missile warning and tracking “force design” developed by the Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC) calls for satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) to provide backup to currently planned constellations, Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency (SDA)
By Theresa Hitchens, Pubished by Breaking Defense, 28 December 2021 US leaders this year faced difficult decisions against a backdrop of rapidly growing challenges from potential adversaries, and a booming commercial space sector that innovation-wise is leaving the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community in the dust. WASHINGTON: Saying it
