Senate confirms nominees for Pentagon comptroller, space acquisition and NRO chief
Until today, the Pentagon had gone a year and a half without a confirmed comptroller.
NRO issues 3 SAR satellite data providers ‘rigorous’ new contracts
The new Radar Commercial Augmentation contracts reflect the companies' successful demonstration of their capabilities under previous NRO study contracts, according to the spy satellite agency.
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Schiess likely to sail through Space Force chief confirmation
"Being non-controversial is not a bad thing," said Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, noting that the low turnout at the SASC hearing was a "compliment" to CSO nominee Lt. Gen. Doug Schiess.
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Despite ‘peak hype,’ orbital data centers for AI not yet ready for NatSec prime time
One expert summed up the defense market viewpoint of AI data centers in space as: "If they build it, we might come."
AI ‘explainability’ is a ‘major concern’ for National Reconnaissance Office: Director
Outgoing NRO Director Chris Scolese said the agency is expanding its work to allow analysts to understand how AI does its analysis.
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Space Force boosts contract ceiling for Andromeda space monitoring sats to $6.2B
The Andromeda IDIQ contract vehicle will fund a replacement for the current GSSAP on-orbit inspection satellites as well as the classified SILENTBARKER space surveillance birds.
NRO awards three new contracts for commercial satellite data
The head of the NRO's commercial programs, Pete Muend, suggested that spysat agency could vet the ability of commercial satellite firms to track airborne targets for the US Space Force.
Trump taps defense firm execs to lead space acquisition, NRO
Erich Hernandez-Baquero has been selected to serve as the Space Force’s next acquisition czar, while Roger Mason has been nominated as the next director of the National Reconnaissance Office.
Air Force kicks off AMTI program with competition for first ‘increment’
Awards will be issued “fairly shortly” for the first operational satellites that can track aircraft and from space, according to Air Force Secretary Troy Meink.
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Nowhere to hide: Iran war spotlights military challenges posed by space-based remote sensing
Planet in a March 9 notice to its customers, obtained by Breaking Defense, explained that the company would be instituting a 14-day delay on release of imagery not just of Iran, but also of nearby military bases, the Gulf States and "existing conflict zones."
With funding flush, Space Force hopes to speed satellites to track aircraft, missiles
Gen. Chance Saltzman, Space Force chief, said the work already done to design a satellite system for tracking ground targets should also help speed AMTI capabilities to orbit.
HEO, SatVu, Sierra Nevada nab first of NRO’s new commercial imagery contracts
"Budget permitting, NRO anticipates issuing additional awards later this year to expand these multi-phenomenology capabilities," the spy-sat agency said in a press release today.
SpaceX to launch next SDA missile tracking satellites
SpaceX will launch 36 Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellites — 18 built by L3Harris and 18 built by Lockheed Martin — plus eight FOO Fighter birds built by Millennium Space Systems.