“My view isn't like, I'm going to magically unlock special secret approaches that haven't been touched before,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kath Hicks said Wednesday. “I think it's more about how you start to shift the incentives"
"We know that the way of warfare has changed, and we're going to be having difficulties with jamming, and having difficulties getting our position navigation and timing signals to our warfighters," said AFRL Director Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle.
3D printing satellites would allow the Space Force to rapidly "pivot" to meet new threats by compressing the time from design to orbit, says Millennium Space Systems CEO Jason Kim.
Brig. Gen. Jason Cothern, Space Systems Command (SSC) deputy, told Breaking Defense that about $400 million of the new funds, if appropriated, would go procurement of a new MEO constellation as one part of multi-layered hypersonic missile tracking.
While the NGA chief said it's "surprising to see that information advantage on the battlefield is so far countering superior equipment and mass" in Ukraine, experts warn a future information fight with China won't likely go as smoothly.
Defense giant hopes other firms will adopt the open-source interface system allowing plug-and-play in orbit.
Kendall's remarks, which came as a surprise to many, including several Space Force officers at the Space Symposium, serves as a direction for where the service should prioritize.
The name Sentinel conjures the idea of a soldier tirelessly keeping watch — not unlike the poor souls pulling a marathon 72-hour alert during the a blizzard at Minot Air Force Base, N.D.
The strategy includes procuring SATCOM, space domain awareness and a handful of other commercial capabilities as "services" under leases or long-term contracts for access.
Millennium’s Chief Executive Officer Jason Kim talks about the Boeing Small Sat Factory and where small sat manufacturing is going next.
Space Force hopes to finally be able to ditch this year its "old clunker" SPADOC computer system for managing space surveillance data.
At the moment it is unclear when Space Force and Space Command actually will decommission CAVEnet, 2000s-era tech that analysts use for highly accurate and classified tracking of space objects.
One of the most worrisome trends reported by the Secure World Foundation and Center for Strategic and International Studies is the increase in the number of countries seeking to develop counterspace capabilities.
Details of the plan will remain classified, but an unclassified outline is expected to reveal more about how Space Command intends to engage industry.