“Commercial analytics-as-a-service, or the purchase of analysis vice pixels, means that we can integrate commercial capabilities faster into our existing products and services (e.g., object detection),” an NGA spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa HitchensEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
MARS is replacing the 1980s-era database, called the Military Intelligence Integrated Database, used by DIA for its primary mission of providing foundational military intelligence to warfighters and national security decision-makers.
By Theresa Hitchens
While this may be the first CRADA’s between the two Indian space startups and the Space Force, neither company is a stranger to the US space market ecosystem.
By Theresa Hitchens
Under a new grant, the company will demonstrate to the Air Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center its ability to take very high resolution images at night using a thermal infrared sensor.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Sapphire has done yeoman’s service for us. It is beyond end of life, but keeps chugging away like the Energizer Bunny. And, and every day that it has a hiccup, I go, ‘Not today, not today,'” said Brig. Gen. Mike Adamson.
By Theresa Hitchens
Michael Monteleone, director of the Army’s assured PNT and space cross functional team, said that the service is interested in high altitude platforms as a capability for “bridging between an aerial layer and space.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The company has demonstrated the capability to do ‘pattern of life’ monitoring, staying over a 40 kilometer area for more than four days, said CEO Ryan Hartman.
By Theresa Hitchens
A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
NRO, NGA, CIA, DIA and NSA are the “standing members” of the new council, says its chairman David Gauthier of NGA.
By Theresa Hitchens
NGA and NRO “have significantly overlapping Venn diagrams,” one industry source said, and they are still trying to “sort that through.” He added, “It’s not a nice clean line.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Newly proposed licensing rules for commercial remote sensing will eliminate automatic DoD review rights for of a majority of applications.
By Theresa Hitchens
WASHINGTON: In the next few weeks an unlikely government agency known more for weather than regulating satellites, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), may decide the international future of America’s commercial satellite imagery industry, dominated now by DigitalGlobe. NOAA licenses American commercial remote sensing satellites, which includes DigitalGlobe’s five satellites currently in orbit. One…
By Colin Clark
