The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is planning to release on Sept. 9 its review of the impacts on DoD use of GPS - just a few weeks before Ligado plans to go live.
"The risks are real but are not quite as bad as some have claimed in some of the hypothetical 'day without space' scenarios," says Secure World Foundation's Brian Weeden.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
“I don’t want to get into any specifics,” Mike White told me, “but some of the challenges we’ve had so far getting to flight have been, in certain instances, avoidable."
"We'll have communications capability up there within the next year or so," said NORTHCOM commander Gen. Glen VanHerck.
"I will tell you right now, the MQ-9 is still a very popular platform with the Combatant Commanders," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown admitted. "So, it's not something we can just walk away from."
“On the eve of Christmas Eve, this veto seems to be Trump’s parting gift to Putin and a lump of coal for our troops," Sen. Jack Reed says.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
The most overlooked story of 2020, including by this publication, is that having a president largely divorced from making military decisions worked pretty well for the US military.
NC3 is "the last line of communication capabilities and associated equipment that we know will always be there during our worst day," explains Air Force Lt. Gen. James Dawkins, deputy CSAF for strategic deterrence and nuclear integration.
"Given where we are at this point in the administration, it's unlikely that we would see a nominee" for an independent Space Force acquisition head, said Shawn Barnes, Air Force deputy assistant secretary for space acquisition.
The House Buy American provisions will destroy U.S. jobs when these countries buy from other countries. And Congress would be ripping up and overriding signed agreements with our closest allies that have served as the foundations of reciprocity in defense trade and cooperation within NATO and with other partners such as Australia and Israel for over 40 years. Our allies are our greatest advantage and this will undermine NATO and our commitment to other global allies.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.