Army plans to field first next-gen Sentinel A4 radar in late 2025
The Army and Lockheed Martin already have seen early interest among US allies and partners in the new Sentinel A4 radar.
Hyperspace Challenge: 6 winners, with focus on novel ‘mobility’ tech for SPACECOM
"Right now, the position of my combatant commander is: 'I wanna move, I wanna refuel, I wanna have life-extension and I wanna live'," SpRCO Director Kelly Hammett told Breaking Defense.
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Space Force sticks to plan for 3 high-value launch providers through 2028
Interested companies have until Dec. 15 to respond to the service's dual requests for proposals: one for the critical, high-dollar NSSL Phase 3 Lane 2 launches; and the other for Lane 1 small launches.
Comtech’s Army SATCOM modem win opens door to cross-service sales
Comtech President and CEO Ken Peterman told Breaking Defense the contract for the Army's Enterprise Digital Intermediate Frequency Multi-Carrier (EDIM) modem paves the way toward helping the Space Force in its struggle to figure out how to integrate ground systems for the myriad military and commercial SATCOM networks used by US forces around the world so as to ensure 24/7 access to needed communications bandwidth.
Booz Allen nabs $630M integration contract for Space Force missile warning, weather programs
The contract, announced by the company today, will support Space Systems Command's Program Executive Office for Space Sensing, which is responsible for the service's missile warning, weather monitoring and "persistent tactical surveillance" programs.
AFRL picks 3 contractors for JETSON effort to develop fission powered spacecraft
The Space Force sees nuclear fission reactors as a solution to replace solar panels for operations in the darkness of deep space.
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Army taps DRS, Intelsat for pioneering SATCOM service pilot
"It will provide commercial SATCOM subscription services, which include SATCOM coverage in different locations, terminals, bandwidth, training if required by the unit and help desk services," Paul Mehney, public communications director for Army PEO C3T, told Breaking Defense.
SPACECOM basing in limbo as heated HASC hearing resolves nothing
Amid the political clash and a lawmaker's call for yet another investigation, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall revealed that he and SPACECOM leader Gen. Jim Dickinson also disagreed over where the new HQ should be.
Space Force wrapping up plan to buy C2 software for maneuvering sats
A future challenge for the R2C2 program will be figuring out how it fits under the Pentagon's overarching Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) efforts, Kelly Hammett, director of the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, told Breaking Defense.
Modern antenna for aging Satellite Control Network passes first test
BADGER's first demonstration, held in late August, "marks the first end-to-end test of the steerable phased array modules and software," Col. Greg Hoffman, of SpRCO's Strategic Capabilities Acquisition Delta, said.
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Pentagon plans to transfer ‘high accuracy’ space tracking data to Commerce
"Commercial data, commercial processing is not classified. It does not matter that the DoD wishes it were," said Barbara Golf, special advisor to Space Systems Command.
Space industry shakeups: Aerospace consolidates, Maxar breaks up
One Maxar official told Breaking Defense today that Maxar's "mission focus" on NRO will not be affected by the split up.
‘Not enough’: Space Force pauses commercial strategy to flesh out ‘actionable’ plans with industry
"It can't just be a strategy with aspirational platitudes about how we're going to work together," Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said. "It has to have more tangible guidance, things that we can take action on."
Space Force looking to fill tech ‘gaps,’ and ‘evolve’ space domain awareness: Saltzman
The space operations chief wants systems that can gather "exquisite, high fidelity information about what's going on" in geosynchronous Earth orbit "and beyond," more sensors in the Southern Hemisphere to keep an eye on low Earth orbit and — critically — a better way to fuse data.