Extra $11 billion to fund huge leap in Space Force launches
The service now expects 170 NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 launches between 2025-2034, up from 60.
On eve of retirement, Saltzman champions military’s role as ‘ballast’ for democracy
“We really used to be considered icing on the cake,” US Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters. Now, “I think we are more the eggs in the cake batter.”
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How defensive cyber responds to hockey-stick growth of AI-driven threats
Artificial intelligence is reshaping adversarial cyber operations at machine speed, requiring defenders to increase operational tempo while imposing pain and cost.
SpaceX wins $4.16B Space Force contract to detect airborne moving targets
"While this OTA agreement establishes initial SB-AMTI capability, the Space Force anticipates issuing multiple awards in the coming year ," the service said today.
SpaceX wins $2.29B to speed Space Force’s LEO communications ‘backbone’
The SpaceX "backbone" constellation will support the broader Space Data Network, which will include the Space Development Agency's Transport layer satellites.
Pentagon clears 8 tech firms to deploy their AI on its classified networks
The Defense Department has made agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Reflection, according to an announcement this morning, with an eighth, Oracle, added just hours later.
Space Force tasks a dozen companies for Golden Dome space-based interceptors
The service pledged it would demonstrate an “initial capability” for the orbital missile killers by 2028.
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Right sized for the fight, smaller Group 2 drones are solving for the limitations of larger UAS
It’s fuel cells, not batteries, that let Group 2 unmanned VTOLS fulfill many missions of larger Group 3s.
Space Force shifts from SDA transport layer to new Space Data Network ‘backbone’
A project previously called MILNET will now be funded in a budget line labeled “proliferated LEO SATCOM,” which the Space Force is seeking $1.6 billion in reconciliation funding to kick off.
Space Force shifts GPS III launch from ULA to SpaceX
The shift follows Vulcan's February grounding under the National Security Space Launch program to resolve persistent problems with its solid rocket boosters.
EXCLUSIVE: Freeman out as head of Amazon Leo Government
Ricky Freeman joined the company in 2023 as part of an increased focus in the defense market.
The space supply chain is getting stretched. Here’s how it could impact the Pentagon’s plans.
Two major trade groups are working on studies to scope the supply chain issues, hone in on the most pressing problems, and identify early mitigation strategies.
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Empower defense teams to scale AI securely
AI is expanding the mission data footprint across defense environments, increasing the need for scalable, layered data-at-rest (DAR) protection.
SpaceX unveils ‘Stargaze’ space tracking system
Stargaze, which will publish space monitoring data free of charge, uses startrackers carried on all Starlink satellites to calculate possible collisions in low Earth orbit, according to SpaceX.
Five stories that surprised the space world: 2025 review
'Unsettled' is a polite word for 2025 in the space domain.
US slams ‘discriminatory’ draft EU space law as imperiling NATO cooperation
The State Department's damning critique argues that, if enacted, the draft law would imperil cooperation on "space weather, remote sensing, space exploration, spaceflight safety, space debris mitigation and remediation, [and] communications."
Defense to ‘anchor’ exploding satellite market over next decade: NovaSpace
The defense sector is projected to account for only nine percent of the satellites going up between 2024 and 2035, but at the same time representing a whopping 48 percent of total market value.