"The expectation is that we will bounce between those constellations in the same flight, so we'll move between them. Now, I don't think anybody should be guaranteeing that on flight one," said AFRL's head engineer for Global Lightning Brian Beal. "We're going to improve as we go and get to that, but that is the goal of the program."
"We'll have communications capability up there within the next year or so," said NORTHCOM commander Gen. Glen VanHerck.
New entrants are filling unmet needs in air-and-missile defense.
WASHINGTON: For the first time, Space Command is working with the operator and builder of America’s spy satellites, the NRO, to develop a shared “playbook” of pre-agreed actions to defend military and spy satellites during a conflict, SPACECOM and NRO officials say. The ‘playbook’ is a central part of a new joint concept of operations (CONOP) […]
"The fighter jet era has passed," says Musk. The future, he averred, is "autonomous drone warfare."
Senior Pentagon and service officials observed the last day of the ground-breaking ABMS exercise and the Air Force engaged Northern Command to create and manage the scenario.
Griffin's seeming skepticism about commercial ventures to provide global broadband and Internet services is in stark contrast to the enthusiasm bubbling out of the Air Force and the Army.
AI is expanding the mission data footprint across defense environments, increasing the need for scalable, layered data-at-rest (DAR) protection.
"I've never gotten a briefing from the Space Development Agency," Roper said, "so I don't know what their plan, I don't know what they're intending."
Roper says he hopes Congress "will smile on the Air Force for breaking out of 'Platform Land' and actually putting money towards digital transformation."