“It’s not going to be like a ‘boom’ milestone delivery where one day there’s nothing and the next day, there’s a finished system,” Richard DalBello, director of the Office of Space Commerce, said of the swap from DoD to Commerce.
By Theresa HitchensA new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
The Office of Space Commerce, in part, is trying to define the scope of what “basic” services it will provide for free, and what else it might do for a fee.
By Theresa Hitchens
Space Force has established the new 19th Space Defense Squadron to monitor what officials now refer to as “xGEO” space.
By Theresa Hitchens
Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron was “re-designated” on April 13 as the “18th Space Defense Squadron,” but will remain SPACECOM’s key provider of space domain awareness.
By Theresa Hitchens
Space Force hopes to finally be able to ditch this year its “old clunker” SPADOC computer system for managing space surveillance data.
By Theresa Hitchens
“My number one priority within the command is: how do I increase my battlespace awareness, in particular, how do I look at the space domain?” SPACECOM head Gen. Jim Dickinson said.
By Theresa Hitchens
There is one bright spot in the ongoing US-China space traffic brouhaha: Beijing has begun publishing for the first time the basic orbital positions of its crewed space station.
By Theresa Hitchens
Enterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
“We invest in high-risk, high-payoff research to support some of the most difficult challenges to the IC,” IARPA program manager Alexis Truitt told Breaking Defense. And debris is “one of the hardest challenges that is affecting satellites worldwide.”
By Theresa Hitchens NOAA next week will issue first requests for proposal to industry asking for help in setting requirements for an unclassified space tracking and collision warning system, said Steve Volz, who currently manages the effort.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Clearly an exchange of diplomatic notes is better than an exchange of Twitter fire (or worse). But diplomatic notes won’t fill in the gaps in space governance and traffic safety,” Jessica West of Canada’s Project Ploughshares said.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I think there are more questions than answers right now when it comes to SJ-21,” Todd Harrison, director of CSIS’s Aerospace Project, told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
The COMSPOC analysis shows that the bulk of the some 1,500 debris pieces being tracked by Space Command’s 18th Space Control Squadron will de-orbit within about three years time.
By Theresa Hitchens
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.
By Theresa Hitchens The MITRE-developed software has been transferred to Space Systems Command for operational prototyping.
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