The Defense Department and the Commerce Department are drafting a memorandum of understanding to detail their plans to transition space traffic management to the Commerce Department over the next few years.
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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 Defense Department and the Commerce Department are drafting a memorandum of understanding to detail their plans to transition space traffic management to the Commerce Department over the next few years.
Air Force Materiel Command is conducting a cost-benefit study of shifting from an aging mobility simulator fleet to a common training platform that is interoperable, easy to upgrade and sustain and will meet current and future live, virtual, constructive training requirements.
The Space Force this week awarded Lockheed Martin a $258 million contract to develop a competing satellite payload prototype for the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications program.
Senate lawmakers are asking the Air Force and the Defense Department comptroller's office to work with Congress on developing a new budget exhibit that outlines the cost savings associated with proposals to divest or retire weapon systems.
The Space Force this week awarded SpaceX a $29 million contract to conduct early integration and fleet surveillance work for non-national security space missions.
The Space Force is considering creating a National Security Space Launch research and development program focused on accelerating technologies that support future space access, mobility and logistics needs to support its next launch services procurement strategy.
Senate appropriators want more visibility into the F-35 follow-on modernization strategy and are directing the joint program office to provide more details on its plans in future budget requests.
New planning guidance from Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond highlights the need for the Space Force to invest in resiliency and next-generation capabilities and announces the service's intentions to create a Space Warfighting Analysis Center tasked with creating future force design alternatives.
The Space Development Agency has issued stop-work orders to L3Harris and SpaceX -- the companies developing its initial space tracking layer satellites -- after Raytheon and Airbus filed protests of the early October contract awards.
Welcome to today’s Space Briefing – a biweekly roundup of the latest national security space news.
The Space Force this week wrapped up its first Schriever Wargame, bringing together eight countries for a two-day training exercise.
The Pentagon today announced it has created a new assistant defense secretary for space policy position, a role that Congress required the Defense Department to create in the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is working with Air Mobility Command to craft a mobility research vision that outlines research needs and priorities to prepare for a 2030 operating environment.
The Air Force Research Laboratory's space vehicles directorate has compiled a list of 13 science and technology areas it plans to prioritize in the near term, the outcome of a two-year strategic planning process.
The head of U.S. Transportation Command said today an ongoing Mobility Capabilities and Requirements Study may reveal a need for more intratheater airlift aircraft.
Boeing today announced it took another $67 million KC-46 tanker charge in the third quarter of 2020, bringing its out-of-pocket costs for the program to nearly $4.8 billion. (UPDATED)
An ongoing Mobility Capabilities and Requirements Study will likely be about three months late due to delays linked to the COVID-19 pandemic that have slowed the analysis.
The Space and Missile Systems Center plans to leverage existing Air Force cloud services and integration efforts as it works to establish a cloud-based ecosystem to enable greater use of digital and model-based systems engineering -- a plan it expects will allow the Space Force to move more quickly toward greater adoption of digital engineering practices and increase commonality and collaboration between the two services.
Welcome to today's Space Briefing -- a biweekly roundup of the latest national security space news.
The Space Force expects to begin standing up a new Space Systems Center next spring and will complete the initial plan for the new acquisition hub within the next month, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond said today.