“I describe PWSA, the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, as the Android model,” said Space Development Agency director Derek Tournear. “If we get vendor lock, if only one works, or if they can’t talk to each other, that falls apart pretty quickly.”
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While almost 20% of overall respondents believe that the Space Force is not effective “at all” at improving space acquisition, there is a major split between views of DoD and industry; just 4% of DoD respondents said Space Force hasn’t helped, while 23% of industry respondents held that view.
By Aaron Mehta
“We’ve got to be tougher, faster, bolder,” said Rep. Jim Cooper. “And I’m really not seeing that like I would like to see.”
By Valerie Insinna
SDA’s “data transport” satellites will be a key enabler of JADC2, says director Derek Tournear.
By Theresa Hitchens
SDA says it’s still a transition partner for Blackjack, despite no specific funding line in its 2021 budget.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I’ve never gotten a briefing from the Space Development Agency,” Roper said, “so I don’t know what their plan, I don’t know what they’re intending.”
By Theresa Hitchens
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SDA Director Fred Kennedy steps down, amid turmoil within the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike Griffin.
By Theresa Hitchens
The sea services have their own space specialists, but those personnel don’t only work on space — so who stays and who goes?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Large networks of small, cheap satellites derived from commercial technology would be harder for China or Russia to kill than a handful of expensive, exquisite military-unique birds. But who gets to build it?
By Theresa Hitchens
The scope of the Space Force appears to be growing, with a new Air Force memo spelling out all of the offices that will fall under the proposed new command.
By Colin Clark
The “separate but equal” sixth service (don’t forget the Coast Guard) will be created in stages, because, as Pence finally admitted publicly, it “requires Congressional action.” And, as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Paul Selva, admitted today, if Congress passed the relevant laws in a year that would “unprecedented.”
By Colin Clark
