If industry can “turn this into a human transport mechanism — which some of the companies are talking about doing — sure the DoD would be interested in exploring options for that, just as we do with the airlines, and the shipping industries today,”AFRL’s Program Manager Greg Spanjers said.
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The largest of the four categories is called “Develop A Warfighter Punch” and includes $279 million for classified programs.
By Theresa Hitchens
The JROC has tagged the Space Force “officially and formally as the integrator for all joint space requirements,” says vice chief Gen. DT Thompson.
By Theresa Hitchens
The funds will support potential new space missions such as re-fueling satellites on orbit.
By Theresa Hitchens
The service plans to buy 48 F-35As and 12 F-15EXs for $4.5 billion and $1.3 billion, but the F-35 buy is almost certain to increase once it hits Capitol Hill. The Air Force also wants to buy 14 KC-46s for $2.4 billion.
By Colin Clark
“If data is the new oil, then we want to mine that data, refine that data,” to make it more useful across the service, Col. Peter Chiou says.
By Brad D. Williams
“Now we’re just really working out the details for the timing that that will happen, and how frankly how it will happen,” Lt. Gen. Daniel Karbler, Army SMDC commander, says.
By Theresa Hitchens
The B-21 Raider: A Marvel Of Digital Development
Risk reduction is vital in the development of this new Air Force bomber. Northrop Grumman is driving risk out of the program with digital capabilities throughout design, build, prototype, and test.
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.
By Theresa Hitchens
HAC-D Chair Rep. Betty McCollum and the Ranking Member Rep. Ken Calvert used today’s hearing to decry DoD’s failure to fundamentally overhaul space acquisition.
By Theresa Hitchens
Gen. Jay Raymond, Space Force chief, stressed that the new digital vision applies not just to service acquisition, but to everything the newest military service does, with a bottom-line goal of speeding decision-making.
By Theresa Hitchens
Space acquisition reform so far has been focused on “small dollar” activities, with most big-ticket programs such as NSSL stuck in the bad old ways, says a new report by Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.
By Theresa Hitchens
“[W]e don’t have a military reason to go to the Moon today, but we do have long term-objectives that include the expansion out to the Moon and beyond,” Space Force Chief Scientist Joel Mozer says.
By Theresa Hitchens
UPDATED: To add comment from former SecAF Heather Wilson and HASC Chair Adam Smith. WASHINGTON: Frank Kendall has a reputation as a tough nut — having wrestled to the ground any number of messy DoD programs when he led the Obama Pentagon’s acquisition shop — including the troubled OCX operating system for GPS, and the…
By Theresa Hitchens
The hard part is structuring the data hand-off. Decisions will come up on how much data management takes place on the satellites and how they will use software-defined communications. Enter service politics.
By Rebecca Grant