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LeoLab’s new, mobile space-watch radar to participate in Valiant Shield exercise

The new Scout-S radar will remain operational after Valiant Shield ends July 1, and already is contributing data to LeoLab's space monitoring network, the company said.

Space Force to overhaul legacy ground-based missile defense radar systems

The sweeping new update plan will include development of a single computerized brain for all eight radar, as well as modernized front end antennas to improve detection of smaller, faster missiles, an SSC spokesperson said.

Space Rapid Capabilities Office to put radars on sats to warn of space-bound threats

The plan is to award two vendors 24-month Direct to Phase II SBIR grants worth $3M each to demo low-cost, low-weight radars on Space Force satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit.

White House comes out against Senate FY26 NDAA language on DoD spectrum rights

Section 1564 would give the Joint Chiefs of Staff the right to nix changes to military systems that would be required to comply with planned spectrum sharing plans.

EXCLUSIVE: SDA eyeing airborne target tracking satellites demonstration, says Tournear

"I would say that we are at the point now where the technology has matured and it's commoditized, so that radar based AMTI from space is feasible," outgoing SDA Director Derek Tournear told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.

Passive ground-based sensor networks could bolster air, missile defense resilience: CSIS

Passive sensors do not need to emit energy to find and fix targets, thus, they are harder for adversaries to find, track and target.

DoD S-band needed for Golden Dome, border defense threatened by spectrum auction plans: CSIS

Selling off the low S-band "is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea," Tom Karako, director of the CSIS Missile Defense Project, told Breaking Defense today.

Air Force scouts three states as potential sites for new homeland defense radar

The radars would help modernize NORAD’s air defenses, though it’s unclear how the program may change due to strained ties between the US and Canada introduced by the Trump administration.

New plug-and-play AI can protect pilots of non-stealth planes: Raytheon

The upgrade allows existing radar warning receivers to analyze unfamiliar signals in real time — fast enough to warn the pilot if it’s an enemy radar locking on. “It could go on any kind of F-16” or a wide range of other aircraft, Raytheon Vice President Michael Baladjanian told Breaking Defense.