The new office will coordinate the commercial cooperation activities of the Joint Task Force-Space Defense at Schriever SFB in Colorado and the Combined Force Space Component Command at Vandenberg SFB in California.
By Theresa HitchensA major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
The strategy includes procuring SATCOM, space domain awareness and a handful of other commercial capabilities as “services” under leases or long-term contracts for access.
By Theresa Hitchens
Details of the plan will remain classified, but an unclassified outline is expected to reveal more about how Space Command intends to engage industry.
By Theresa Hitchens
The new military accord signed by Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the US presages joint stance on future space norms.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The US doesn’t go anywhere alone, we don’t do it alone around the world, and we certainly don’t do it alone in space,” Lt. Gen. Nina M. Armagno, Space Force staff director said yesterday.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The hesitation to include allies in Olympic Defender was on our end as well,” says Secure World Foundation’s Brian Weeden. “National security space is sort of the last bastion of America’s ‘crown jewels’.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Space Force is looking to establish an independent identity, based on the legacy of the Air Force space community, but focused on “22nd century warfare,” says Maj. Gen. John Shaw.
By Theresa Hitchens
A 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 average person in the world doesn’t understand how their way of life is linked to space,” says Gen. Jay Raymond, head of SPACECOM. “I don’t think the average person understands the threat that exists today.”
By Theresa Hitchens
GAO finds that the Space C2 program “is planning to meet previously deferred requirements that proved too complex for prior programs to achieve,” and “also plans to address new and emerging threats to space assets, for which requirements are not yet defined.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“The goal is to eventually integrate all of AFSPC data” into the UDL, says AFSPC, “along with other sources such as commercial space (already there but more coming), multi-domain data from such as air, land, sea, data from other agencies, and even academia.”
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 Air Force Maj. Gen. Stephen Whiting is the new head of SPACECOM’s Combined Force Space Component Command; Gen. Tom James leads the new Joint Task Force Space Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
“When you talk about resiliency and the fight tonight, I’m bringing out everything and the kitchen sink. I’m gonna MacGyver anything I can bring,” says AFSPC Brig. Gen. DeAnna Burt.
By Theresa Hitchens
