By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 22 December 2021 GAO said information provided to Congress on the Space C2 program makes it difficult to assess its progress WASHINGTON — The Government Accountability Office issued another report critical of a U.S. Space Force program that is developing software tools to track
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 22 December 2021 Space Force wants to deploy sensors across the GEO belt and is asking contractors if they can produce payloads for $10 million or less WASHINGTON — GEOST, a small company based in Tucson, Arizona, won two U.S. Space Force contracts worth
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNet, 17 December 2021 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has awarded Raytheon Technologies a $67 million contract to test a prototype weather system the company designed for the service, the American firm announced Dec. 15. The Space Force initially selected Raytheon Intelligence & Space
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 15 December 2021 Raytheon is one of three contenders selected by the Space Systems Command in June 2020 to develop space sensor prototypes for the Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System WASHINGTON — Raytheon Technologies received a $67 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to
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 Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 8 December 2021 WASHINGTON: Space Force today launched two experimental satellites carrying payloads designed to detect nuclear explosions, keep tabs on space objects, monitor the weather and experiment with laser communications, in addition to some other classified capabilities. The mission, dubbed Space Test
By Justin Katz, Published by Breaking Defense, 7 December 2021 WASHINGTON: The Missile Defense Agency today announced it had finished construction and started initial fielding on a key radar program that, once operational, will play an integral role in protecting the homeland from ballistic missiles. The Long Range Discrimination Radar,
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNet, 7 December 2021 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force launched a host of experimental payloads into orbit along with a NASA satellite Dec. 7 as part of the Space Test Program. Nine Space Force payloads selected by the Defense Department’s Space Experiment Review Board
