Under a new grant, the company will demonstrate to the Air Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center its ability to take very high resolution images at night using a thermal infrared sensor.
By Theresa HitchensBetter user interface and experience create faster decision-making in multi-domain operations
Improved UX and UI can enable smarter use of AI and automation, helping warfighters manage data-rich environments and make faster, more informed decisions.
There may not be an agreement on where airspace ends and space begins, but experts say other questions floated during the balloon saga have down-to-earth answers.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I think it’s really important that we start contributing. We’ve got a couple of little satellites up there,” said Air Vice Marshall Cath Roberts, “but space domain awareness is where we can start and we need to operationalize it because we are so far behind.”
By Colin Clark
Ahead of the Wednesday launch, mystery surrounds what the mission of NROL-87 is. NRO never talks about the purpose of specific satellites, period, but the payload will be launched to an orbit consistent with that of an imaging satellite.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The Army needs information when and where they want it,” said Rob Zitz, a former Army intel official. “The IC should not get a vote on what Army needs or how Army executes combat missions.”
By Theresa Hitchens and Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“This language from the SASC serves notice that they intend to keep a close eye on the NRO’s commercial remote sensing program,” observed Keith Masback, a former senior defense and intelligence official.
By Theresa Hitchens
Integrating commercial off-the-shelf computing on military platforms and how to make it work
The systems may be off-the-shelf, but the packaging for integration on vehicles and ships provides cradle-to-grave resiliency.
DoD officials are extremely aware, almost to the point of paranoia, that even discussing the issue of NRO potentially being subsumed by the Space Force is playing with fire.
By Theresa Hitchens
“[T]he trend is that a larger percentage of our work will be able to be accomplished using commercial systems than in the past,” says Gauthier.
By Theresa Hitchens
“You can’t hide very well” in space, one industry official said, “So, I think the government is going to have to get over that, and recognize space is a free place.”
By Theresa Hitchens
CFSCC’s mission includes executing “tactical control over globally dispersed Air Force, Army, and Navy space units that command satellites in every orbital regime.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“Right now space is a supporting element to a geographic [component command] … but that paradigm is going to flip over time, where the supported command — the primacy, where the actions will happen first — is going to be space,” says Lt. Gen. Joseph Guastella, head of Air Force Central Command.
By Theresa Hitchens
US Space Command will officially stand-up on Aug. 29, with four main missions: “missile warning, satellite operations, space control and space support,” says JCS Chair Gen. Joseph Dunford.
By Theresa Hitchens
Tal Inbar, senior space analyst at the Space Research Center of the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, says that Arab space initiatives pose no threat at the moment.
By Arie Egozi and Theresa Hitchens
Human rights literally disappeared from former President Trump’s National Security Council (NSC) when he dropped the term from the position once known as the special assistant to the President for multilateral affairs and human rights. President Biden has appointed a new coordinator for democracy and human rights in the NSC. This firmly reestablishes the issue…
By Anthony Vinci