L3Harris Technologies has secured a potential $700 million contract to work on the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer satellite program. T1TL is designed to detect, identify and track advanced missile threats. Under the contract, L3Harris will build a 14-vehicle satellite constellation that will include technologies that are designed to track fast-moving threats. These […]
The Army’s assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology said the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is the ideal testing ground for the Pentagon’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control program, which envisions seamless communications across all armed services. In this regard, Assistant Secretary Doug Bush called for the holding of a massive exercise that would test the […]
Incumbent and former Pentagon officials on Monday called for the publication of a concept of operations guide spelling out how the envisioned Joint All-Domain Command and Control program can improve America’s defense posture. They described CONOPS as a blueprint that lays out how proposed capabilities under JADC2 can benefit the country’s warfighters, FedScoop reported Monday. […]
AFCEA International, a nonprofit membership organization, has appointed retired U.S. Air Force Col. Michael Black as vice president for defense. He will work to strengthen AFCEA’s position in areas such as cyber, security, intelligence and information technology. Black will also be responsible for building professional relationships with partners in the private and public sectors, AFCEA […]
Virgin Orbit founder Richard Branson on Friday confirmed the success of his company’s fourth consecutive satellite launch mission. The mission carried seven satellites into low-Earth orbit on behalf of the U.S. Space Force to facilitate the experiments of multiple government agencies concerning spacecraft technologies, new approaches for satellite applications and Earth atmospheric science, Virgin Orbit […]
The Space Force‘s sensors and data transport capabilities will play an important role in enabling the military’s network modernization effort, the service’s top official said. Chief of Space Operations John Raymond, a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event and a three-time Wash100 winner, said guardians have already made contributions to the warfighter’s ability […]
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said speeding up ongoing efforts to modernize the Air and Space forces is badly needed amid the aggressive stance recently taken by both China and Russia. He explained that while the two services’ transformation programs have met with some success, recent world events have demonstrated the need to pick up the […]
Maj. Gen. Michael Schmidt, the outgoing program executive officer for command, control, communications, intelligence and networks, has highlighted his team’s role in sustaining the U.S. Air Force’s enterprise networks. Schmidt, a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event, said that C3I&N’s work in connecting service members supports the Air Force’s buildout of the Advanced […]
The Senate Armed Services Committee has advanced President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the 16th Air Force, a numbered air force that specializes in information warfare. Also known as Air Forces Cyber, the Joint San Antonio-Lackland-based organization is tasked with delivering multi-source intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, electronic warfare and information capabilities to the Air Force, its […]
Rep. Adam Smith, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he is reluctant to fully commit funding to the U.S. Air Force’s future stealth fighter. The Next-Generation Air Dominance program, the effort by the Air Force to field a family of sixth-generation fighters, had entered its engineering and manufacturing development phase by the start […]
