orbital warfare

Facing a lack of kit, Space Force creates $981M pool to buy training capabilities

Gen. Greg Gagnon, head of Space Force Combat Forces Command, said a number of key mission areas face a serious lack of simulators needed for training Guardians.

US, close allies creating joint ‘orbital warfare’ plan: SPACECOM chief

Gen. Stephen Whiting told the Mitchell Institute today that SPACECOM also plans to continue its Apollo Insights table-top exercises with commercial industry on a quarterly basis this year.

Lt. Gen. Doug Schiess tapped as 3rd Space Force chief

Lt. Gen. Doug Schiess will inherit a much larger Space Force, in both budget and end strength, than his predecessor Gen. Chance Saltzman.

Space Force 2040: 30,000 satellites, ‘thousands’ more Guardians

The Space Force's projections of its needs for orbital warfare and electronic warfare are only included in the classified version of the new Objective Force plan, but Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman confirmed that the service wants new kit for orbital warfare.

New Space Force acquisition portfolios to cover space control, orbital warfare

The Space Force is "serious" about integrating cislunar capabilities, with plans to work closely with NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory on new tech, Tom Ainsworth, Air Force space acquisition officer, said today.

Space Force plans to create contractor pool for ‘physical/live’ training needs in summer

Space Force leaders consider orbital warfare training with live satellites a vital piece of the service's nascent Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI).

Space Force taps Slingshot to build AI adversaries for orbital wargames

Slingshot's TALOS AI tool will be integrated into Space Training and Readiness Command's classified training operations, according to the company.

Space Force to focus training on ‘orbital warfare,’ joint integration

Gen. Gregory Gagnon, head of Space Force Combat Forces Command, said that currently "40 percent of my units do not have a realistic trainer in order to practice on them."

Anduril, Impulse to demo maneuvering satellite, with sights set on Space Force missions

"I just think freedom of maneuver is going to be the enabler for every space mission going forward," said Gokul Subramanian, Anduril's senior vice president of engineering.

Resolute Space exercise focuses Guardians on countering ‘realistic’ threats to satellites

"If the space domain feels pain, the rest of the Joint Force will likely feel that pain as well," said Lt. Col. Shawn Green, commander of the Space Force's 527 Space Aggressor Squadron.

‘Bunch of SCARS’: Space Force’s Hammett speeds phased array antenna integration

"[T]his capability is so important to where we're headed in the next couple of years, with having the capacity to make the SCN [Satellite Control Network] stand up to all the new systems that are coming and all the new mission requirements that they're going to have," Hammett told Breaking Defense.

EXCLUSIVE: US loosens some rules for offensive counterspace ops, wargaming

Some decision-making authorities, previously closely held by the president or secretary of defense, have been delegated to US SPACECOM, according to sources, but military space leaders want more freedom to act.

Space RCO head sees potential ‘product line’ for orbital warfare satellites

Space RCO Director Kelly Hammett envisions that his shop will feed tech into the Space Force's new effort to contract commercial firms to replace the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites for monitoring the heavens.

Army to stand up new space career field for enlisted personnel in October 2026

Gainey noted that the MOS 40D mission area will include operating the service's expanding ground-based electronic warfare arsenal for disrupting adversary space and counterspace systems.