The secretary of the Department of the Air Force said the Department of Defense’s budget request for fiscal year 2024 includes provisions for a classified air and space sensors project. Speaking at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air Warfare Symposium, Air Force Secretary and 2023 Wash100 winner Frank Kendall shared that the funds will […]
Boeing has demonstrated the capability of its Protected Tactical Enterprise Service to protect end-to-end satellite communications from jamming. PTES was built under a $383.4 million contract the U.S. Air Force awarded to Boeing in 2018. During the demonstration, PTES was tested over an on-orbit commercial satellite and enabled integration of anti-jam software and hardware with […]
Peter Beck, CEO of Rocket Lab USA, told SpaceNews in an interview that his company supported the two-track approach to the third phase of the National Security Space Launch program and said the resulting acquisition strategy is “what we were certainly promoting to occur.” Unlike Phase 2, solicitations for NSSL Phase 3 are expected to […]
The Space Development Agency has selected CesiumAstro to develop Link-16 compatible active electronically scanned array antennas for the agency’s low-Eath orbit satellite network called the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, formerly known as the National Defense Space Architecture. CesiumAstro will build the antennas under a $5 million contract award. According to the company, the antennas will […]
The U.S. Space Command plans to set up a new office for onboarding commercial products. According to a SPACECOM memorandum, the unified Common Integration Office will combine an office managed by Joint Task Force-Space Defense at Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado and another by the Combined Force Space Component Command based at the Vandenberg […]
The Department of Defense has provided more details about each of the five tenets of responsible behaviors in space previously outlined in a memorandum by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and formally adopted in an August 2022 policy directive. Austin, a Wash100 awardee, had instructed U.S. Space Command to come up with best practices for […]
Ball Aerospace has partnered with Modern Technology Solutions Inc. as a subcontractor to support work focused on providing scientific and technical intelligence to the U.S. Air Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Department of Defense and other national intelligence organizations. NASIC awarded MTSI an 11-year, $5 billion Novastar S&TI analytic capability support indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract […]
Raytheon Technologies has secured a $250 million contract to provide the Space Development Agency with a low-Earth orbit constellation of seven missile-tracking satellites and launch and ground operations support. The system will form a component of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, an interconnected space and ground network meant to serve the Department of Defense’s various missions. […]
NASA has developed a communications networking protocol for automatic information delivery that will be used for Artemis missions. The Delay Tolerant Networking protocol uses a “store-and-forward” process to ensure that information will be delivered regardless of signal difficulties. DTN would either forward data as it is received or store it for future transmission in case […]
The U.S. Space Force has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology an $18 million other transaction authority agreement for digital infrastructure services. GDIT will develop prototype digital infrastructure that enables secure file sharing and collaboration for government and industry partners. The company will also integrate a cloud capability so the Space Force will have a solution […]
