Countering missile threats with enhanced warning and tracking payloads
Missile speed, maneuverability, and destructive power requires more capable payloads for accelerated kill chain timelines.
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Trump: Golden Dome to cost $175 billion, will be led by Space Force’s Guetlein
President Donald Trump said the project to develop a missile defense shield should be "fully operational" before the end of his term, and claimed Canada has asked to join the project.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Space Force taps 4 firms to vie for missile warning C2 prototype
The Space Force expects the multi-faceted Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program to cost a total of $2.4 billion.
Space Force plans launch this week for final SBIRS missile warning sat
Assuming the Thursday launch goes as planned, the last of the satellites, SBIRS GEO-6, is expected to be up and running by "late spring, early summer" next year, according to Maj. Matt Blystone.
Next-Gen OPIR Missile Warning On Schedule For 2025 Launch
"At this point, we do not assess any impact to the schedule but continue to evaluate that day by day," said Col. Brian Denaro, SSC's program manager for Next Gen OPIR.
SMC Eyes MEO Sats For Missile Tracking
Space Force is actively considering whether its future missile warning and tracking satellites should be stationed in a wider range of orbits than in the past to improve the network's accuracy and resiliency, an SMC official says.
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Meeting Zero Trust goals while maintaining information dominance
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
SDA Demos Spotlight Tech Hurdles To JADC2 Backbone
Two of the experiments, each involving two satellites, are focused on laser links: one between satellites themselves; the other from satellites to a MQ-9 Reaper drone on the ground.
New SBIRS Sat Creates Bridge To Next-Gen Missile Warning
The new SBIRS satellite, called SBIRS GEO 5, will be "the most advanced missile warning satellite" on orbit, said Lt. Col. Ryan Laughton, SMC's program manager.
SMC Building ‘Catalog’ For Common Satellite C2 Ops
Instead of one mega-system to rule them all, the Enterprise Ground System (EGS) is building common components, from messaging standards to shared servers.
SMC, SDA Missile Warning Sat Ground Systems Won’t ‘Talk’ – For Now
"The fiction that SDA and SMC are working together is just that," said a former senior DoD space official. "You know, they make nicey-nicey, but, the reality is that they're not working together."
The future of Zero Trust
Zero Trust is the Pentagon’s foundation for its modern cybersecurity strategy.
EXCLUSIVE: Space Is At Heart Of JADC2, Says Maj. Gen. Crider
"As a new service, we have an opportunity here to really establish ourselves in a new way -- leveraging digital technologies, and leveraging digital processes and practices in a new way," says Maj. Gen. Kim Crider, Space Force acting chief technology innovation officer.
Space Force, Services Struggle To Define Mission Boundaries
"We can't break the US Air Force, we can't break the Army, we can't break the Navy," said Lt. Gen. David Thompson, Space Force vice commander.
Air, Space Force Leaders Near Missile Warning Plan
Part of the new missile warning satellite architecture will be plans for integrating commercial and allied capabilities, explains Shawn Barnes.
2021 Budget Will Fully Fund Next-Gen OPIR, Says Roper
The SBIRS follow-on missile warning sat program is "firing on all cylinders," says Roper.