MILSATCOM for the most critical no-fail missions
With multiple nuclear-capable threats and space itself being a contested domain, assured and protected MILSATCOM are more critical than ever before.
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Friends in high places: Space Force entrusts military payload to Norwegian firm in comsat launch
The satellites carry a handful of different payloads, including the two US Space Force Enhanced Polar System-Recapitalization jam-resistant communication payloads, an X-band communications payload for Norway's Ministry of Defence, and a Ka-band payload for commercial firm Viasat.
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
Growing the Space Force: Is outsourcing operations an answer?
"This is not only new; it's astounding. It's shocking. It's a huge change (if adopted)," one industry contractor told Breaking Defense of the proposal.
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New DoD SATCOM plan seeks to establish a modernized, ‘holistic’ network
The new plan is broken down into three imperatives: integrating data management, automating resource allocation and fusing situational awareness.
Ukraine war raises questions about military insight into commercial SATCOM
“We have seen a massive flow of commercial SATCOM capabilities come into theater and in many ways that has enabled us to kind of spread out our MILSATCOM capabilities and take advantage of those commercial SATCOM capabilities,” Brig. Gen. Chad Raduege said. “That has driven its own unique lesson learned in that we often don’t have quite the insight on the commercial side that we have on the military side."
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.
Fear grows that US military satellite communications are falling behind: Study
The annual "State of Military Communications Technology" poll finds that only about a third of repondents believed that the Pentagon was moving quickly enough to adopt commercial technology and streamlined acquisition rules to be able to make necessary upgrades quickly.
Exclusive: Space Warfighting Analysis Center chief on creating ‘something out of nothing’
SWAC Director Andrew Cox joked that his office would be "building Pinocchios" if it can't move its blueprints for change into real-boy programs with funding behind them.
DoD Spending On JADC2 Jumps, With Increased Focus On Interoperability: Report
Govini's Billy Fabian said that for some JADC2 problems, the DoD has a "closing window... before the next generation of capabilities are too far along in development. Otherwise, it risks making its interoperability challenges even worse."
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Next-Gen GPS Satellites Get Ground-Control Modernization
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command and Raytheon Intelligence & Space are enhancing mission management and mission-data processing to shift the focus of GPS operations from satellite command and control to basic, user-oriented effects-based operation.
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Why enterprise IT modernization matters now – and how to “delight by design”
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
Space Force Digital Vision Focuses On Speedy Decisions
Gen. Jay Raymond, Space Force chief, stressed that the new digital vision applies not just to service acquisition, but to everything the newest military service does, with a bottom-line goal of speeding decision-making.
Air Force Culls ABMS Experiment After Budget Cut
The sixth ABMS onramp "was going to be in partnership with Australia, and allies and partners, in the Pacific Rim," Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said, but "just due to the budget constraints, we had to pull the plug on that."
Space Force To Focus SATCOM Management On JADC2 Needs: EXCLUSIVE
"The Joint Force depends upon SATCOM communication services as part of its JADC2 and Internet of Things," says Maj. Gen. Kim Crider, Space Force acting technology innovation officer.
New International Partnerships Could Spur Hosted Payloads: Gen. Thompson
SMC is "working on innovative relationships with, believe it or not, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and some other places you wouldn't think of as traditional spacefaring nations," says Gen. DT Thompson, Space Force vice.