The Space Force this week released a draft request for proposals for two Tactically Responsive Launch missions aimed at providing flexible small launch services.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
Courtney Albon was senior editor for aviation and space at Inside Defense until December 2021. She covered the Air Force since 2012, reporting largely on space programs and fighter aircraft acquisition, development and budget from inside Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, and from military installations around the United States. Courtney previously worked as a general assignment reporter at The Ashland Times-Gazette in Ashland, OH, covering education and local government. She graduated from American University in 2008, where she studied journalism and sociology.
The Space Force this week released a draft request for proposals for two Tactically Responsive Launch missions aimed at providing flexible small launch services.
A new RAND study of the Air Force's training range investment plan found that funding advanced capability upgrades would have a greater effect on readiness if the service also re-stationed certain fighter squadrons to provide greater access to high-end ranges.
The Air Force has released a final request for proposals for the F-15EX propulsion system, which includes up to 461 engines to be delivered through 2031.
The head of the Air Force Test Center is eyeing full operational capability in June for a new Multidomain Test Force that aims to support the Defense Department's vision for Joint All-Domain Command and Control.
Welcome to today's Space Briefing -- a biweekly roundup of the latest national security space news.
As the Air Force Research Laboratory supports Space Force efforts to establish a robust testing enterprise, its top priorities are focused on developing a synthetic test environment, improving hardware-in-the-loop capabilities and ensuring sufficient on-orbit instrumentation exists to test systems in the space environment.
A Space Force team is studying the possibility of developing a tactical intelligence satellite, according to the Chief of Space Operations.
The Boeing-built F-15EX flew for the first time today -- kicking off the aircraft's flight-test program.
The Air Force has resolved two new KC-46 Category 1 deficiencies involving the auxiliary power unit, the commander of Air Mobility Command told reporters Monday, emphasizing that the service is working closely with Boeing to make progress on remaining development issues.
The Space Force expects to release a request for proposals for the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability this summer, a new acquisition program aimed at providing persistent coverage of objects in geosynchronous orbit.
After playing a key role in advising the Air Force secretary on space policy and management, the office of the assistant Air Force secretary for space acquisition and integration is reorganizing -- establishing three new directorates and a slew of subject matter experts in major capability areas.
Boeing said today its defense business recorded a $275 million pre-tax charge last quarter related to the KC-46 tanker program. The charge brings Boeing’s total charges to $5.1 billion -- higher than the $4.9 billion ceiling set in its development contract.
The Space Development Agency is seeking industry input on future architecture concepts and technologies to support the National Defense Space Architecture in a new broad agency announcement released this week.
The Pentagon's delay in publishing the first iteration of a new Joint Warfighting Concept by the end of 2020 is due largely to COVID-19 restrictions that limited the ability to conduct effective, large-scale exercises needed to mature the concept, according to a top Defense Department official.
The Air Force announced this week it has awarded Boeing a $2.1 billion contract modification to deliver an additional 15 tankers.
With a five-year plan in place, the Space Force is working with the acquisition community and industry to develop requirements for a future National Space Test and Training Range.
The Defense Department estimates the cost of the GPS Operational Control Segment follow-on program at $223 million, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
A new report from the Pentagon's director of operational test and evaluation labels the F-35 joint program office's test schedule for the Operational Data Integration Network "high risk" and questions the program's ability to deliver a fully functional system by this September.
The Air Force has selected the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL, as the preferred location to host U.S. Space Command headquarters.
President Trump this week issued a new executive order that would require the Defense Department to work with the Commerce and Energy departments as well as NASA to consider the benefits and utility of advanced nuclear reactors for space power.