Space Force expands Commercial Integration Cell for industry cooperation
The five new CIC companies are BlackSky, Kratos, Leolabs, ICEYE and Telesat; Hawkeye 360 and Exoanalytic will join soon, a Space Force spokesperson told Breaking Defense today.
Army about to formalize ‘micro-high altitude balloons’ as a new requirement for surveillance ops
The new effort for microHABs is being led by the Army's Program Executive Office for Aviation, Andrew Evans, director of the Army's ISR Task Force, told Breaking Defense, which for the moment is the primary acquisition shop overseeing the service's pursuit of systems that can operate at the upper edges of the stratosphere — roughly between 60,000 and 100,000 feet, and just below orbital space.
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L3Harris protests SNC’s HADES spy plane contract win
L3Harris said it wants "further analysis to ensure the proposal received an equitable evaluation," while SNC told Breaking Defense the protest has "no technical merit."
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SPACECOM expanding missions for multinational commercial space domain awareness cell
One of the JCO's new missions will be gathering what the Space Force calls tactical surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking data from commercial remote sensing satellite operators, said JCO head Barbara Golf.
Ensured SATCOM, GPS alternatives tops among Space Force budget wishes
"Every dollar invested brings asymmetric returns, while every cut risks asymmetric losses, given the continued advancements of the competitors, the Space Force budget needs more, not fewer, resources to do our job," said Gen. Michael Guetlein, Space Force vice chief.
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Next-generation KC-390 Millennium expands multimission options for air forces
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Space Force vice wants sats to track aircraft by early 2030s
One of the key challenges for tracking enemy aircraft from space is that airplanes and drones move much faster than tanks, trucks and ships; confounded by the fact that satellites themselves also move around the Earth extremely fast.
Air Force greenlights baseline for new NRO-Space Force satellites to track ground targets
Calvelli's decision comes after a five-month delay necessary to hash out a reliable cost estimate for the NRO-Space Force development program.
SNC wins Army contract for HADES spy plane
An Army official previously told Breaking Defense that a baseline HADES configuration will include moving target indication, high-end signals intelligence and other capabilities.
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon reveals 5 more funded RDER projects, including a top Marine priority
The Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve, brainchild of Pentagon CTO Heidi Shyu, has funded low-profile but high-value niche technologies the services couldn’t or wouldn’t, from robot boats to a multi-domain targeting node.
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EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon R&D chief defends RDER experimentation initiative after Senate broadside
"Every single undersecretary, every single service, every COCOM … they all concurred, thumbs up, on the first four sets of prototypes, that these are mature enough to get into production and rapid fielding," Under Secretary Heidi Shyu told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview on the progress of her Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve.
Senate appropriators push Pentagon, Intelligence Community on commercial space acquisition
Perhaps most intriguing is legislative language that calls into question Pentagon and IC plans to declassify data from classified remote sensing satellites that are part of a newly developed joint architecture called the "High-Capacity, Find, Fix, Track, Target and Engage and Assess Constellation," or "HCF" for short.
Orbital Insight nabs NGA pilot for commercial maritime awareness data
Orbital Insight's contract, worth up to $2 million, is focused on providing data and analysis about potentially threatening maritime activity in the Indo-Pacific.
Army taking wide-open approach to high-altitude platforms: SMDC chief
"I've always been a fan of balloons that can provide over the horizon support in a missile defense perspective," Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey, head of Army Space and Missile Defense Command, told the Hudson Institute today.