"The ubiquitous user terminal that could interoperate across frequency bands and orbits was a key part of [the Space Force's SATCOM Vision], and to date, no one's been able to deliver it," said Ryan Stevenson, Kymeta's chief scientist.
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.
It's been a whirlwind of a year — and the defense establishment has plenty of thoughts on how it's unfolded and what might come next.
The language used by MoD to describe the strategy's motivations echo those long used by the US Defense Department — for example, citing the fact that space is "increasingly competitive and contested" putting national space systems at risk.
Rather than going into a polar orbit, the Cluster 6 birds will be stationed in an inclined orbit over the middle of the globe, explained HawkEye 360's Chief Operating Office Rob Rainhart in an interview with Breaking Defense.
Black Skies will be followed later this year by the Red Skies exercise focused on "orbital warfare," STARCOM Commander Maj. Gen. Shawn Bratton said. Next year, the Blue Skies exercise will focus on cyber warfare.
The Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for Gen. Chance Saltzman as the next, and second, Space Force chief was free of major fireworks — suggesting an easy 'yea' vote.
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
The report, required by Congress to get to the bottom of whether Ligado's network would interfere with DoD capabilities, classifies much of the military impact.
The bottom line, according to DIA is that space "is being increasingly militarized" around the globe, and the threats to US military and commercial space activities continue to grow, from ground-based ASAT tests, to ISR fleets, to deep space hiding places.
Detecting interference with Global Positioning System sat signals in conflict zones actually is "low hanging fruit," says Spire's Conor Brown. "We're picking them up accidentally with our weather satellites."
The Transportation Department is working closely with DoD, DHS and other agencies "to address policy and technical issues including the security and resilience of GPS receivers," says General Counsel Steven Bradbury.
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
Wallis Laughrey, Raytheon Vice President for Space and Airborne Systems, says it is possible that the Air Force will keep both Raytheon and Northrop Grumman as Next-Gen OPIR GEO payload providers "if funding is available."
US may face destabilizing Russian interference with NTMs "while demand for strategic intelligence on Russian strategic nuclear forces from space-based NTMs goes up significantly," says Michael Gleason.
CAPITOL HILL: In a rare public event, the No. 2 member of the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee (HPSCI), Rep. Adam, said a cyber attack on a US satellite could be considered an act of war. While this may sound like common sense to some, the question of whether using cyber to interfere with or disable […]