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Northrop Grumman’s TITAN “pre-prototype” was designed to test only the ability of a ground station to rapidly tap into and disseminate satellite imagery.
By Theresa Hitchens
An audit by the DoD Inspector General found that while federal law “allows for one of 4 conditions for a prototype OT award,” Pentagon rules contain “no requirement to validate that the contractor met those conditions,” an OIG spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
The prototype, called Space End Crypto Unit (ECU), is being developed in tandem electronics firm Aeronix, with planned delivery in 2024.
By Theresa Hitchens
Along with worries over basing schedule and international partners, GAO had fretted software development could delay completion of the first radar site.
By Theresa Hitchens
SDA Director Derek Tournear told an industry audience today that proposals under the new OTA would be due the day before Thanksgiving. “You’re welcome,” he joked.
By Theresa Hitchens
BAE Systems’ LR-PGK: The Superior Anti-Jam Solution
Going the distance to defeat emerging jam threats.
“The Army in the past has always executed traditional IT in a very decentralized way — we let every command do their own thing,” Army CIO Raj Iyer said. “Now, if you look at the requirements for multi-domain operations, that model doesn’t work anymore.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“LiDAR is a really neat technology, and we’ve got to take advantage of it,” NRO Director Chris Scolese said.
By Theresa Hitchens
ODNI is working on providing outside partners with declassified explanations of the office’s science and technology priorities, said John Beieler, director of science and technology.
By Theresa Hitchens
“If the Space Systems Command is going to acquire other commercial services in the same fashion that CSCO has been acquiring commercial SATCOM, then that will not serve the warfighter well,” said Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat.
By Theresa Hitchens
Stan Soloway and Jason Knudson dig into whether Other Transaction Authorities actually work, and whether they should become a more common tool for the DoD.
By Stan Soloway and Jason Knudson
“These efforts are not about creating physical traits that don’t already exist naturally. This is about enhancing the mission readiness of our forces by improving performance characteristics that typically decline with age,” Cmdr. Tim Hawkins, SOCOM spokesperson, said.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Space & Missile Systems Center has reaffirmed its choice of NSTXL to manage the public-private Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), rejecting allegations by The Washington Post.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. and Theresa Hitchens
DoD needs to lower the barriers to larger defense market opportunities that go beyond R&D, extending into the full lifecycle of defense systems, argues Christopher Zember.
By Christopher Zember