Addressing 5G National Security Risks Must Include Satellite Security

Addressing 5G National Security Risks Must Include Satellite Security
Addressing 5G National Security Risks Must Include Satellite Security

As the US and its partners try to exploit the benefits of 5G networks for future national security uses, the focus has largely been on security terrestrial networks. But in this analysis, Melissa K. Griffith of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars argues that those worried about 5G security need to aim higher. What…

Space Force Eyes Commercial P-LEO SATCOM

Space Force Eyes Commercial P-LEO SATCOM
Space Force Eyes Commercial P-LEO SATCOM

“If the Space Systems Command is going to acquire other commercial services in the same fashion that CSCO has been acquiring commercial SATCOM, then that will not serve the warfighter well,” said Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat.

Loft Orbital’s ‘Rideshare’ Sats: Take An Uber To Space

Loft Orbital’s ‘Rideshare’ Sats: Take An Uber To Space
Loft Orbital’s ‘Rideshare’ Sats: Take An Uber To Space

Loft’s two satellites are carrying payloads for a Space Development Agency demo, the UAE Space Agency and European commercial satcom firm Eutelsat, among others.

ULA CEO Calls For Bigger ‘Penalties’ For Unsafe Space Operations

ULA CEO Calls For Bigger ‘Penalties’ For Unsafe Space Operations
ULA CEO Calls For Bigger ‘Penalties’ For Unsafe Space Operations

WASHINGTON: Hot on the heels of an agreement between the Air Force and the FAA to streamline regulations on space launches from military ranges, the head of one of the biggest US launch providers has called for penalizing companies that violate the safety clauses of FAA launch licenses. “The regulations that FAA applies, and the licensing…

SDA Demos Spotlight Tech Hurdles To JADC2 Backbone

SDA Demos Spotlight Tech Hurdles To JADC2 Backbone
SDA Demos Spotlight Tech Hurdles To JADC2 Backbone

Two of the experiments, each involving two satellites, are focused on laser links: one between satellites themselves; the other from satellites to a MQ-9 Reaper drone on the ground.

Costs Plunge So ‘Rocket Cargo’ To Battlefield Takes Off

Costs Plunge So ‘Rocket Cargo’ To Battlefield Takes Off
Costs Plunge So ‘Rocket Cargo’ To Battlefield Takes Off

If industry can “turn this into a human transport mechanism — which some of the companies are talking about doing — sure the DoD would be interested in exploring options for that, just as we do with the airlines, and the shipping industries today,”AFRL’s Program Manager Greg Spanjers said.

TRANSCOM Head Envisions Increased Intra-Theater Lift Demand

TRANSCOM Head Envisions Increased Intra-Theater Lift Demand
TRANSCOM Head Envisions Increased Intra-Theater Lift Demand

The Joint Warfighting Concept will “envision much smaller force elements that are inherently reliant on very rapid mobility” within a theater, says TRANSCOM head Gen. Stephen Lyons.

Northrop Breaks Into DARPA’s Blackjack

Northrop Breaks Into DARPA’s Blackjack
Northrop Breaks Into DARPA’s Blackjack

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.

US ‘Will Fail’ If Space Acquisition Doesn’t Reform: CSPC

US ‘Will Fail’ If Space Acquisition Doesn’t Reform: CSPC
US ‘Will Fail’ If Space Acquisition Doesn’t Reform: CSPC

Space acquisition reform so far has been focused on “small dollar” activities, with most big-ticket programs such as NSSL stuck in the bad old ways, says a new report by Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.

Theater Commands OK SDA’s Sat Plans: EXCLUSIVE

Theater Commands OK SDA’s Sat Plans: EXCLUSIVE
Theater Commands OK SDA’s Sat Plans: EXCLUSIVE

Military operators will be able (at least virtually) to ill be able to (at least virtually) “sit side-by-side, elbow-to-elbow with the SDA test team” as the various satellite “layers” are put through their paces.

AMC Eyes Self-Defense For Cargo, Tanker Planes

AMC Eyes Self-Defense For Cargo, Tanker Planes
AMC Eyes Self-Defense For Cargo, Tanker Planes

“We have hardpoints on the C-17; We have hardpoints on the KC-46. It’s not a hard stretch to think that we could put one or two missiles on there for self defense,” says AMC head Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost.

Eye On JADC2, Lockheed Explores Unique 5G-SATCOM Network

Eye On JADC2, Lockheed Explores Unique 5G-SATCOM Network
Eye On JADC2, Lockheed Explores Unique 5G-SATCOM Network

It’s sort of like we’re exclusively dating. We agreed to not see other people right now but we haven’t committed to anything else yet,” explained one Lockheed Martin official.

Air Force Culls ABMS Experiment After Budget Cut

Air Force Culls ABMS Experiment After Budget Cut
Air Force Culls ABMS Experiment After Budget Cut

The sixth ABMS onramp “was going to be in partnership with Australia, and allies and partners, in the Pacific Rim,” Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said, but “just due to the budget constraints, we had to pull the plug on that.”

AFRL, NORTHCOM Eye Commercial Internet Sats For Arctic

AFRL, NORTHCOM Eye Commercial Internet Sats For Arctic
AFRL, NORTHCOM Eye Commercial Internet Sats For Arctic

“We’ll have communications capability up there within the next year or so,” said NORTHCOM commander Gen. Glen VanHerck.