Thursday, October 10, 2024
As a way to look at better leveraging space capabilities, NATO is standing up a "joint lessons learned center" in Poland that will look at the innovative and successful ways Ukraine has fought against the Russian invasion, a senior official said today.
The Defense Department needs to revise its guidelines for identifying and tracking software assurance risks for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared system, according to recommendations from the Pentagon's watchdog.
The Space Force will incorporate "highly maneuverable on-orbit assets" into two of its Tactically Responsive Space demonstrations to show how such satellites can complement responsive launch efforts, according to the service.
United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket successfully took off this morning, the company announced, taking the next step toward certification needed for certain future National Security Space Launches.
The United Launch Alliance is "supremely confident" that the second certification flight for the Vulcan rocket will be successful and earn the approval needed for certain National Security Space Launch missions, CEO Tory Bruno said.
The Air Force is bringing industry into command, control, communications and battle management experiments to help current or potential contractors understand the warfighter's operational needs.
The Space Force awarded four companies contracts to create design concepts for the first set of Resilient-GPS satellites, a program created outside of the typical budgeting cycle through the Quick Start authorities granted in last year’s defense policy act.
The Space Force won’t be able to award the Phase 3 Lane 2 National Security Space Launch contracts until a fiscal year 2025 budget is passed, a top official said, and any delays to a budget would make it harder for the service and its industry partners to stay on schedule.
Three B-21 Raider bombers are in “various configurations of test,” including up to two flight tests a week, a Northrop Grumman executive said yesterday.
Air Force Materiel Command this week stood up the Integrated Development Office, one of three organizations that make up the new model of requirements and acquisition for the service.
Along with a letter from Secretary Frank Kendall imploring Congress to pass a fiscal year 2025 budget on time, the Air Force today sent lawmakers a two-page fact sheet detailing the effects of three-, six- and 12-month delays in allocating funding.
The Space Force's Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve program won't be built on just one contract model, but what those models look like has still not been decided, a senior official said Monday.
The Space Force will look to further fund its pathfinder initiative to buy commercial data analytics services to support combatant command situational awareness, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said today.
The Space Force has convened a task force to consider how to organize a Space Futures Command to drive requirements and integration within the service, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said today.
The first set of the Space Development Agency's satellites for data transport and missile tracking has been an "unmitigated success," Director Derek Tournear said today, paving the way for the third operational slate of satellites for the speedy-development effort.
The U.S. should no longer call China a "future threat," Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said, as the military power's actions and exercises position it as a threat today.
Tens of thousands of Defense Department servicemembers and civilians are now using an Air Force-designed generative AI system plugged into the military's intranet, paving the way for the tool's future expansion.
Tens of thousands of Defense Department servicemembers and civilians are now using an Air Force-designed generative AI system plugged into the military's intranet, paving the way for the tool's future expansion.
Two of the Space Force's missile warning programs have completed ground-critical design and system-critical integration reviews, Space Systems Command announced today.
Directors for research and development and procurement in the Defense Department need to take "rational" risks, said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), co-chair of the newly formed Senate Defense Modernization Caucus.