The Pentagon wants at least $70 million for its Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve and $76.79 million for its Artificial Intelligence and Data Accelerator, budget documents show.
How many satellites Capella eventually launches depends on customer demand for faster and faster revisit rates, Capella CEO Payam Banazadeh told Breaking Defense.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
"I'm very confident that the JROC is having a significant impact, which is what I'm responsible to help with," Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Christopher Grady told reporters here today during the Pentagon's FY23 budget rollout.
US leaders this year faced difficult decisions against a backdrop of rapidly growing challenges from potential adversaries, and a booming commercial space sector that innovation-wise is leaving the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community in the dust.
The test will see how well "Freedom Radio" works with third-party communications, as integration is seen as critical for JADC2.
Where success meant identifying failures, top Army officials said desert experiment revealed problems in "situational awareness" that will be critical in future fights.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
NRO use of shutter control on commercial electro-optical imagery would be "very rare," and "limited in both area and time," said Peter Muend, head of the spy agency's commercial office.
The Army is on track to deliver a first prototype MRC by 2023, said Marcia Holmes, deputy director at the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technology Office.
"Kind of like the mountains Lewis and Clark had to scale, data is a mountain we have to climb," NGA Director Vice Adm. Robert Sharp said at GEOINT 2021.
"Is the coin of the realm the 70 years of craft that they have, or is it about what they uniquely hold?" asked former ODNI deputy Sue Gordon.
“Tactical operating system” for warfighters has evolved to provide more situational awareness of the battlefield.
“Does (JADC2) increase lethality? The answer should be yes. (JADC2) makes us more lethal. We're a warfighting organization. That's what this is designed to do.”—Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, director of C4 and CIO, Joint Staff.
"One of the challenges that I see with JADC2 is: is it really joint? Or is it SADC2 -- in other words, is it really just a service all domain command and control?" quipped George Ka'iliwai, director of requirements and resources (J8), at Indo-Pacific Command headquarters.
"We really view ourselves, not as a space company, not as a satellite company, but as a geospatial intelligence company," says BlackSky's Chief Technical Officer Peter Wegner.
"Having an exquisite solution is really exciting, but if it takes 10 years to bring to bear for the warfighter, and it's limited to only a few platforms, it's much less compelling," Northrop's Ian Reynolds observed.