Theresa Hitchens is the Senior reporter, Space at Breaking Defense. The former Defense News editor was a senior research associate at the University of Maryland’s Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). Before that, she spent six years in Geneva, Switzerland as director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).
A sci-fi geek, voracious reader, enthusiastic cook, dabbler in poetry, Theresa is also the proud mom of a wonderful young man by the name of Nicholas.
The Space Warfighting Analysis Center has started laying out force designs for critical operations, but will SSC be able to transition those blueprints into real-world acquisition programs, Lockheed Martin's Eric Brown asked.
The SURI program is is aimed at transitioning "high risk, high reward ideas in science" to "applied technology and advanced technology development," said Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle, AFRL director.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
"We made it clear when we stood this up that it is going to be an evolutionary process, and that we just stood up the bare bones in the first year — because it's hard enough to do that," Rep. Mike Rogers said. "And we're putting the flesh on the bones each year trying to mature it in a slow and pragmatic fashion, and do it right."
"The good news is the government is very interested in the commercial opportunities, but from the industry standpoint, it's hard to figure out like what door to walk through and how to how to make that contact," said Steve Isakowitz, CEO of the Aerospace Corporation.
The B-SURE bio-bugs program is a first baby step in using biology to create a space-based supply chain, reducing reliance on materials launched from Earth.
Planet is hopeful that NRO not only will be interested in its current 50cm resolution SkySat constellation, but also its newest constellation, called Pelican, which will be operational in 2023, said co-founder Robbie Shingler.
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
Until a program-by-program review is provided by the Defense Department, the armed services committees would limit spending on each one to no more than than 75% of its planned annual budget.
Included among the STP-3 mission's payloads is NASA’s Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) aimed at enabling higher speed communications across the vast region of space between the Earth and Mars.
Chiding Russia for its recent ASAT test, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said that "from the Defense Department's perspective, we would like to see all nations agree to refrain from anti-satellite weapons testing that creates debris."
Despite increasing threats to and from space, the new priorities document stresses that "confrontation or conflict" is not inevitable.
Cyber resilience has become a frontline mission for the US military. Breaking Defense’s new eBook rounds up key reporting from the 2025 Alamo ACE conference with the latest developments in cyber offense and defense.
The test will see how well "Freedom Radio" works with third-party communications, as integration is seen as critical for JADC2.
In response to lawmakers, Navy says budget cuts will add $700 million long-term to retrofit fighters.
China's recent test of a FOBS/HGV hybrid is "a very forward-edge technology capability," said Space Force's Lt. Gen. Chance (Salty) Saltzman.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has given the go-ahead for Space Force components in EUCOM, INDO-PACOM, CENTCOM and US Forces in Korea, but questions remain about Guardians' "global responsibility."