NGA puts a "template" on the products that "literally acknowledges … what you are looking at has not been touched by human hands,” said Director Frank Whitworth. “It's important [for] combat commanders and the Secretary and the President that they have that knowledge.”
Russian hackers haven’t crippled Ukrainian networks, but it’s not for lack of trying. With Western help, Ukraine had spent eight years building its cyber defenses – ironically, in a way most US agencies and companies have not.
With potential adversaries no longer predictable, training must move beyond just live exercises and flight simulators.
UPDATED: Adds Space Command statement from Gen. Dickinson COLORADO SPRINGS: After a series of recent tussles over who manages what in space, National Reconnaissance Office Director Christopher Scolese today announced a new agreement between his office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Space Force and Space Command, dubbed the Protected Defense Strategic Framework. “This high level […]
"We think there is a tremendous demand within the US government for this type of high quality SAR data, so we're eager to broaden and deepen those engagements," says ICEYE US CEO Mark Matossian.
"You can't hide very well" in space, one industry official said, "So, I think the government is going to have to get over that, and recognize space is a free place."
ULA CEO Tony Bruno says he "would not be surprised" if the Air Force National Security Space Launch Phase 3 competition includes a requirement for responsive launch.
It’s about improving existing platforms with autonomy, and applying AI, edge computing, quantum encryption, and sensor fusion.
"To be quite honest most of our space systems are not the leading edge technologies," Troy Meink, head of GEOINT at NRO, said. "We've not kept up in many cases with the commercial environment."
The "separate but equal" sixth service (don't forget the Coast Guard) will be created in stages, because, as Pence finally admitted publicly, it "requires Congressional action." And, as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Paul Selva, admitted today, if Congress passed the relevant laws in a year that would "unprecedented."
WASHINGTON: While reports that he may have violated the law swirl around disgraced former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn today, the White House moved to fill a few more of the very large number of empty offices of senior Pentagon officials. For our readers, the key appointment is of Kari Bingen, who apparently was nominated to […]
WASHINGTON: The nation’s spy satellite agency, the NRO, is likely to get closer scrutiny under the presumptive Air Force Secretary, Heather Wilson, a disciplined former National Security Council staffer and member of Congress. I interviewed Wilson a number of times while she was on the Hill and was always impressed with her command of the […]
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UPDATED: NRO Confirms SpaceX Launch Buy GEOINT: The Pentagon’s Third Offset strategy puts much faith in artificial intelligence and machine-to-machine communications. The National Reconnaissance Office is already working on making those a reality, deploying prototypes of its new next-generation ground systems, Director Betty Sapp said here this morning. “We anticipate fielding a ground system able to direct […]
CAPITOL HILL: The experiments underway by the Air Force, the National Reconnaissance Office and the rest of the space-centric Intelligence Community under the auspices of the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSPOC) are clearly demonstrating how much space warriors need to change the way they do business. That was the unspoken but logical conclusion of […]
AFA WINTER: The third experiment in how the Intelligence Community and the Pentagon should fight together in space gets underway next week, says Gen. John Hyten, head of Space Command, A fourth will be held in May. After the first two tests — all details of which are classified — one lesson has become absolutely clear, Hyten made […]
PENTAGON: If a spy satellite is attacked, who will command America’s response — the head of Strategic Command or the Director of National Intelligence? If an Air Force satellite is attacked first, who would command America’s response? These questions are being hotly — but very quietly –debated at the highest reaches of the U.S. government. Since an […]