By Jacqueline Feldscher, Published by Defense One, 27 May 2021 Private industry is launching at a pace with which the military’s space-surveillance system can’t keep up. Now lawmakers say the Commerce Department’s fix is running late. It’s been nearly three years since the U.S. Commerce Department was ordered to start
By Sara Sirota and Ryan Grim, Published by The Intercept, 25 May 2021 Bezos’s Blue Origin lost its bid for a major NASA contract to Elon Musk, but the Senate is ordering the agency to give a second one now. Now that Jeff Bezos’s space flight company Blue Origin has
By David Vergun for DoD News, Published by Space War, 13 May 2021 Washington DC (AFNS) - The United States is a spacefaring nation, which depends on access to space and freedom to maneuver in space. However, there's a potential for conflict in space that could affect the lives of
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 Sandra Erwin, Published by Spacenews, 7 May 2021 Rep. Betty McCollum: 'Too often over the past two decades, space acquisition programs have been delivered late and over budget.' WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has moved quickly to organize its operational units since it was established 16 months ago.
By Jacqueline Feldscher, Published by Defense One, 4 May 2021 A space-focused branch of the Guard would aim to give the Space Force “a surge-to-war capability” in times of conflict. The National Guard will soon deliver recommendations to the defense secretary on how to establish a space-focused component of the
By Anthony Capaccio, Published by Bloomberg, 27 April 2021 The Pentagon plans to spend almost $18 billion to develop, produce and support its new interceptor to stop incoming nuclear missiles from North Korea or Iran, the first major defense procurement award of the Biden administration, according to newly released figures.
