"Unfortunately, we were, we were slowed down a bit by uncertainty in our budget," said SSC's Col. Rob Davis, delaying awards for Epoch 2 of the Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Tracking — MEO program by about three months.
"When one of our two industry partners struggled with delivering on cost and schedule, we were able to quickly pivot and still maintain program progress by turning to the performing vendor," Col. Rob Davis, program executive officer for SSC's Space Sensing Directorate, said.
As threats evolve, the winning model ties digital engineering to manufacturing capacity and a reindustrialized supply chain.
"This was done because the RTX Epoch 1 development effort was facing significant cost growth from the original agreement baseline, projecting slips to the launch schedule, and had unresolved design challenges," a Space Systems Command spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
While the Space Development Agency initially intended to make awards to more than one vendor, the agency determined that a sole-source contract with the Boeing-owned firm was "best value."
When it comes to delivering small satellites rapidly, Millennium’s Law rules — at least at Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company.
"This mission highlights significant progress towards meeting emerging challenges in space,” said Lt. Col. MacKenzie Birchenough, materiel leader for SSC's Space Safari office.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
The program, called Victus Haze, builds on the on-going Space Systems Command Victus Nox mission to rapidly launch a prototype satellite for keeping tabs on objects in low Earth orbit.
Rapidly delivering small sat constellations for national security space missions.
Among the exercise scenarios, Red Skies will look at how Space Force operators will handle threatening close approaches by adversary satellites.
"It's challenging. It's not the status quo. We're pushing the envelope with the Space Force," Millennium CEO Jason Kim told Breaking Defense.
As global navies adapt to evolving underwater threats, ASELSAN’s integrated sonar, countermeasure, and sonobuoy solutions offer a scalable, future-ready approach.
“I think now's the time where we need to figure out what is tactically responsive space, and I don't think there's a clear consensus,” said Kurt Eberly, who directs Northrop Grumman’s space launch vehicles business unit.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Boeing's Millennium Space Systems are now on contract to deliver flight-ready prototypes by 2026.
The WFOV satellite, being built by Boeing's Millennium Space Systems, is expected to launch this evening on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket, under the National Security Space Launch program.
Jason Kim, chief executive officer of Millennium Space Systems, talks about the changing face of satellite imagery for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.