Space Force aims to build out requirements for digital training environment in 2026
Space Warfighter Operational Readiness Domain (SWORD) is a "distributed" digital training environment currently being used by the 392nd Combat Training Squadron.
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.
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The U.S. Army’s MAPS Gen II program of record for assured PNT provides an authoritative and reliable source of truth for combat vehicles in a highly contested battlespace.
Space Force declares ATLAS space domain awareness software ‘operational’
"[O]n the ops floor, [ATLAS is] generating a catalog — it's publishing data to Space-track.org They're using that as a primary system," Space Systems Command's Shannon Pallone said in an exclusive interview.
SPACECOM discussing expansion of joint space monitoring missions with allies
US Space Command has now completed two rendezvous and proximity operations with partners in Multinational Forces Operation Olympic Defender: France and Britain.
NATO investing $728M in new space capabilities, including a new ‘data lake’
NATO's collectively funded space efforts are focused on space domain awareness and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, Col. Jonathan Whitaker, who heads the NATO Combined Forces Space Component Command, told Breaking Defense.
SSC to finish ‘system delta’ reorg next month
The three new Space Systems Command (SSC) system deltas in the pipeline will be responsible for acquisitions related to space combat power, assured access to space and positioning, navigation and timing, SSC Commander Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant told Breaking Defense.
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Beyond ‘potpourri’ of sensors: Saltzman pushes holistic approach to space domain awareness
The service needs to better detect and track on-orbit activity, and find objects that have been "lost" to its surveillance network, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said.
Space Force cell explores reorg to push commercial data to military
The reorganization of the JCO will involve two elements: setting up processes for JCO to provide commercial space monitoring data directly to operators and establishing an acquisition pathway for that data.
Anduril, Impulse to demo maneuvering satellite, with sights set on Space Force missions
"I just think freedom of maneuver is going to be the enabler for every space mission going forward," said Gokul Subramanian, Anduril's senior vice president of engineering.
Northrop Grumman says first DARC test validates radar tracking capability
DARC has been plagued with delays almost since its inception, according to a series of annual studies by the Government Accountability Office.
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Missile Defense Agency’s long-range radar tracks ICBM test target for first time
The test, dubbed Flight Test Other-26 (FTX-26), was originally planned for fiscal 2022, and again in 2023.
Space Force’s rapid-launch Victus sats to push both acquisition and operational boundaries
While the current focus on the TacRS program is space domain awareness, Col. Bryon McClain, SSC's head of Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power, said other sorts of operational missions might be undertaken in the future.
New Space Force ‘Orbital Watch’ initiative to share threat info with commercial operators
"It's a way for them to understand what the threat is, but also they will have the ability to reach back to the government if they actually see something. So, we're trying to have a give-and-take discussion," Col. Richard Kniseley, the head of SSC's Commercial Space Office (COMSO) that manages Front Door, told Breaking Defense in an interview March 21.
Time for Space Force to ‘clearly say’ it needs ‘weapons in space’: SPACECOM head
"The US and France recently conducted our first ever bilateral rendezvous and proximity operation to demonstrate combined capabilities in space in the vicinity of a strategic competitor spacecraft," SPACECOM head Gen. Stephen Whiting said today.