“I’m not criticizing ATLAS, but on the record, if it doesn’t get there on time, I’m gonna find an alternative, because that’s why I exist,” Space RCO Director Kelly Hammett told Breaking Defense.
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Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant told Breaking Defense that the long-troubled effort to upgrade the C2 system for space domain awareness is making progress — with the ATLAS software due to become operational “at the end of next year.”
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MeshONE-T is designed to operate as a network of data transport nodes that allows for rapid, secure communications between sites across the globe.
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With today’s announcement, KBR will begin to integrate the boutique space data analytics firm into its “Government Solutions” segment and “Defense and Intel” business unit.
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The request for information also asks industry to comment on the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve program’s clauses allowing the Space Force to prohibit a participating firm from selling products/services to other customers during times of crisis and war.
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Col. Robert Davis, program executive officer for SSC’s Space Sensing Directorate, told the National Security Space Association today that the SWAC study might affect how follow-on satellites are designed and, perhaps, hardened to radiation.
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The new office, led by Claire Leon, will work to integrate acquisition programs across Space Systems Command, the Space Development Agency and the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, Breaking Defense has learned.
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“By breaking down barriers between government, coalition, and commercial space situational awareness data, CODA allows us to create a tailored, operations-relevant understanding that directly informs tactical fires and maneuver decisions,” said Col. Raj Agrawal, Space Operations Command Delta 2 commander.
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“This proactive approach ensures we remain ready to meet our national defense objectives,” Lt. Col. Brian Pitman, space-based weather systems material lead at Space Systems Command’s Space Sensing directorate, told Breaking Defense in an email.
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The OSP-4 contract vehicle was designed by the Space Force to allow both mature launch providers and promising new companies — that is, those judged as about a year away from launch capability — to vie for individual task orders for missions that don’t require services under the more critical National Space Security Launch program.
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“This was done because the RTX Epoch 1 development effort was facing significant cost growth from the original agreement baseline, projecting slips to the launch schedule, and had unresolved design challenges,” a Space Systems Command spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
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Under the contract, SpRCO’s Rapid Resilient Command and Control project, nicknamed R2C2, will buy ground software in “bite-sized pieces” to support new Space Force satellites capable of rapid and sustained maneuver.
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Project Enigma is a program designed to create a single-cloud digital environment where industry, academia and the DoD can work together on a shared network.
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“I think the US national security community is going to shape commercial space for the foreseeable future,” Carissa Bryce Christensen, CEO of BryceTech, told Breaking Defense.
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