SDA Opens Contest For First Operational Constellation
SDA intends to choose three contractors next year to design and build up to 144 new satellites.
Egyptian Deal For Rafale Fighters Boosts Data Sharing
Egyptian sources tell Breaking Defense that this may not be the last Rafale purchase. Egypt is now eying the Rafale F4. “We are looking to increase the (overall) number to 72 or 100 units, depending on Egypt’s financial capacity.”
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
JADC2: SDA To Upgrade Satellite Laser Links
The Transport Layer will form a 'mesh network' of communications/data relay satellites, linking all DoD command and control networks, to enable JADC2.
Operational Comms, Missile Tracking Sats Up In 2024: SDA
The next group of satellites, "Tranche 1 is going to be a big deal," says SDA Director Derek Tournear, ensuring troops have "persistent regional access" to comms and missile warning/tracking data.
AFRL’s Newest Lab Aims At Building Things In Space
One of the first projects the new DeSel lab will work on is testing structures for a futuristic capability that could be enabled by on-orbit assembly and manufacturing: space-based solar power.
Link 16 To Tie Legacy Platforms To SDA Satellites
Future satellite vendors will need to "show you can plug your WiFi into our WiFi and get a signal," says Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear.
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AFRL Targets Space Ops In New Orbits
"You would basically have a Link 16 capability everywhere, all the time, all over the world, and that is pretty powerful enabler to our warfighters," Felt said of AFRL's XVI project to equip LEO sats with Link 16.
SDA Scales Back Ambitions For Cislunar ‘Deterrent’ In First RFP
SDA's "data transport" satellites will be a key enabler of JADC2, says director Derek Tournear.
SDA To Demo Tracking & Targeting Satellites In 2022
Tournear says SDA is involved with wider DoD efforts to develop capabilities for multi-domain operations. The sapce agency's planned satellites will serve as the "backbone" used by all the services to share targeting data.
Northrop Demos Radio, Possible Multi Domain Key
The Northrop Grumman radio will provide one-stop access to four types of radio communications widely used by all services for air-to-air and air-to-ground communications.
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
Multi Domain Drives NATO Industry To Craft New Air Power Interoperability
The industry study is designed to help NATO "better prepare and operate within a multi-domain environment."
US, Allies Getting Larger Airborne Network With New JTRS Radios
The software defined radios will make F/A-18E/F and F-22 aircraft communications nodes in a coalition network.
Marine Airpower’s Future: Networking F-35s, V-22s, & MUX Drones
CAPITOL HILL: The Marine Corps’ top pilot sketched a vision of fast-paced and networked air operations, spearheaded by F-35 fighters, V-22 tiltrotors, and the future MUX drones, all linked to each other and the rest of the force by Link-16 and MADL. Marine F-35s have already practiced spotting targets for Marine artillery rockets and Navy […]