DoD pushes out 3 loans totaling $450M to bolster US space companies
One industry source told Breaking Defense that the reason for the spate of new loan announcements is that the Pentagon "needed to finalize loans by the end of the fiscal year."
White House has lofty space launch ambitions, but experts question price tag
The space industry lauded a new Trump administration 1,000-launches-a-year space policy, but experts told Breaking Defense that the current space infrastructure doesn’t have enough capacity and someone’s going to have to pay, potentially a lot, to change that.
From directed energy to AI and hardening, JIATF-401 is widening counter-UAS options
There is no single answer to the drone threat, pushing the Pentagon toward a broader mix of defenses.
Space war 2040: SPACECOM preps for attacks on ground segments, eyes cislunar ops
The Space Warfighting Environment 2040 is unique because it "was deliberately written to be warfighter-first, not technology-first," an official at SPACECOM's Joint Forces Development and Training team told Breaking Defense.
Despite ‘peak hype,’ orbital data centers for AI not yet ready for NatSec prime time
One expert summed up the defense market viewpoint of AI data centers in space as: "If they build it, we might come."
DAF study finds new space launch site ‘probably’ required
Lt. Gen. David Miller, Space Force deputy for Strategy, Plans, Programs and Requirements, said on Tuesday that the service alone is looking at some 1,000 launches between fiscal 2027 and 2031.
Industry bullish on DoC draft license process for novel space activities
The Office of Space Commerce certification process would be voluntary for industry, due to the fact that congressional authorization would be required for the imposition of any new regulations.
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Missiles and radar need more than demand – they need manufacturing capacity
Expanding manufacturing capacity is critical to producing missiles, radars, and launch systems.
Capacity gap for 9 specialized components gnarls space supply chain: Study
The study by the Aerospace Industries Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers found that in the case of some critical components, only three or fewer qualified domestic suppliers exist.
HEO, SatVu, Sierra Nevada nab first of NRO’s new commercial imagery contracts
"Budget permitting, NRO anticipates issuing additional awards later this year to expand these multi-phenomenology capabilities," the spy-sat agency said in a press release today.
To overcome Golden Dome ‘affordability’ hurdle, DoD needs acquisition reform, AI: Official
Marcia Holmes, DoD deputy director for Golden Dome, said AI and autonomy will "change how we deploy and use our weapons."
US slams ‘discriminatory’ draft EU space law as imperiling NATO cooperation
The State Department's damning critique argues that, if enacted, the draft law would imperil cooperation on "space weather, remote sensing, space exploration, spaceflight safety, space debris mitigation and remediation, [and] communications."
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Weaponizing the supply chain for a liquid-fueled howitzer-fired munition that flies 150 km
The goal of such weaponization is to tie warfighter needs to the RDT&E cycle.
Defense to ‘anchor’ exploding satellite market over next decade: NovaSpace
The defense sector is projected to account for only nine percent of the satellites going up between 2024 and 2035, but at the same time representing a whopping 48 percent of total market value.
Space Force will own next-gen neighborhood watch sats, based on commercial tech
Space Systems Command expects to issue a draft request for proposal by the end of the calendar year, a Space Force spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
Space Force to get NOAA antennas to supplement Satellite Control Network
Space Systems Command is prototyping a Joint Antenna Marketplace to offload some of the SCN's burden and expand its capacity by using existing commercial and non-DoD agency antennas, rather than building costly new ones for the network.
Beyond ‘potpourri’ of sensors: Saltzman pushes holistic approach to space domain awareness
The service needs to better detect and track on-orbit activity, and find objects that have been "lost" to its surveillance network, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said.