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Defense innovation industry white paper

Defense innovation industry white paper
Defense innovation industry white paper

Key observations from the evolving defense innovation ecosystem, including new programs and private market deal dynamics.

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Laser comms in orbit underpin Space Force’s Transport and Tracking layers for data and missile warning

Laser comms in orbit underpin Space Force’s Transport and Tracking layers for data and missile warning
Laser comms in orbit underpin Space Force’s Transport and Tracking layers for data and missile warning

With mission experience and partnerships across the space industry, Northrop Grumman is executing the Space Development Agency’s vision for speed, delivery, and agility.

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Earth’s a big world with secrets to reveal to those who can sense and make sense of it

Earth’s a big world with secrets to reveal to those who can sense and make sense of it
Earth’s a big world with secrets to reveal to those who can sense and make sense of it

With Planet’s AI/ML tools and 50 petabytes of Earth-observation data, users can easily search through the archive to find the needles in the haystack.

US risks ‘weakness and dependence’ as it falls behind China in tech race: Report

US risks ‘weakness and dependence’ as it falls behind China in tech race: Report
US risks ‘weakness and dependence’ as it falls behind China in tech race: Report

Data analytics firm Govini noted widespread investment in most of 12 top critical national security technologies, but said stats on patents are a troubling indicator of Beijing’s tech rise.

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Millennium’s Law

Millennium’s Law
Millennium’s Law

Rapidly delivering small sat constellations for national security space missions.

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Rad-hard: one company is keeping space systems operating years beyond expected lifetimes

Rad-hard: one company is keeping space systems operating years beyond expected lifetimes
Rad-hard: one company is keeping space systems operating years beyond expected lifetimes

BAE Systems sees two significant trends in radiation-hardened and tolerant solutions in space, and they’re the opposite of each other.

UK asks industry for new ground-based space domain awareness sensor capability for Cyprus base

UK asks industry for new ground-based space domain awareness sensor capability for Cyprus base
UK asks industry for new ground-based space domain awareness sensor capability for Cyprus base

Once operational, the new sensor will be hosted on a UK military base on the Mediterranean island, capable of resident space object (RSO) tracking and “potentially characterisation or neighbourhood watch functions for the GEO orbital regime,” according to a Request for Information (RFI) solicitation.

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Small satellite acquisition: Contracting for success

Small satellite acquisition: Contracting for success
Small satellite acquisition: Contracting for success

Millennium Space Systems’ Vice President of Contracts Joshua Madrigal shares how contracting plays a critical role in acquisition.

Space Force asks industry input for second phase of MEO missile warning/tracking

Space Force asks industry input for second phase of MEO missile warning/tracking
Space Force asks industry input for second phase of MEO missile warning/tracking

The Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Tracking – MEO constellation will be incrementally developed in two- to three-year cycles by Space Systems Command.

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Defending every domain from the highest domain

Defending every domain from the highest domain
Defending every domain from the highest domain

High-value assets in space means positioning both exquisite payloads and quick-react, short-term, inexpensive small sats across orbital regimes to accomplish specific missions.

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Overhead Persistent IR is how hypersonic and maneuverable threats will be tracked

Overhead Persistent IR is how hypersonic and maneuverable threats will be tracked
Overhead Persistent IR is how hypersonic and maneuverable threats will be tracked

Two of the five OPIR missile warning satellites will be polar-oriented to sense ballistic missile threats from adversaries. All five are designed to not only detect launches but to track missiles as they maneuver.

Reflecting on a momentous year in defense and shifting focus to what challenges may occur in 2023

Reflecting on a momentous year in defense and shifting focus to what challenges may occur in 2023
Reflecting on a momentous year in defense and shifting focus to what challenges may occur in 2023

European defense spending, space governance and more is reviewed in our latest eBook: Year in Review & Looking Ahead. Gain insight into what happened on a global scale over the past year and be better prepared to address whatever comes next. View eBook here.

Virgin’s space launch failure costs US, UK militaries 4 satellites

Virgin’s space launch failure costs US, UK militaries 4 satellites
Virgin’s space launch failure costs US, UK militaries 4 satellites

The US and UK had two defense-related satellites apiece on the Start Me Up mission, which will now need to be replaced.

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TITAN is a thing of great strength, intellect, and importance: For the Army, it’s all that for JADC2

TITAN is a thing of great strength, intellect, and importance: For the Army, it’s all that for JADC2
TITAN is a thing of great strength, intellect, and importance: For the Army, it’s all that for JADC2

A tactical ground station that finds and tracks threats to support long-range precision targeting, TITAN promises to bring together data from ground, air, and space sensors.