It’s widely recognized that innovation isn’t the Federal government’s strong suit – especially at the Pentagon – but change is not impossible. To facilitate this shift, Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of Space Operations at the U.S. Space Force, suggests the government must break free from its “new-old” mentality and embrace a “new-new” approach. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has worked for more than two decades to modernize its GPS with a more secure, jam-resistant, military-specific signal known as M-code. The Space Force, part of the Department of the Air Force, is responsible for GPS modernization.  […]

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The Space Force is pursuing expanded partnerships with allied nations to increase space defense capabilities and its commercial partnerships, the Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein said on Aug. 28 at the 2024 AFCEA/INSA Intelligence & National Security Summit.    […]

The U.S. Space Force’s first-ever chief technology and innovation officer, Lisa Costa, is retiring from public service, she announced on Tuesday in a post on LinkedIn. […]

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The U.S. Space Force (USSF) plans to establish a Space Futures Command to develop and validate innovative concepts to meet today’s security challenges, said a senior official for the military branch. […]

The Space Development Agency (SDA) – an arm of the U.S. Space Force – has added Rocket Lab National Security as the third contractor for the Beta version of its Tranche 2 transport layer, which is focused on developing a constellation of satellite communications for warfighters around the globe. […]

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The U.S. Air Force and Space Force face a tough race for technological superiority with China, which continues to modernize its air and space forces to project power in the Indo-Pacific region, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said this week. […]

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The Defense Department’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is teaming up with the U.S. Space Force in a newly issued solicitation focused on creating a “tactically responsive” space system prototype that can be deployed and utilized within 24-hour notice. […]

As the U.S. Air Force and Space Force move toward expanding their Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), the service branches are looking to brew up competition among private sector organizations of all sizes to grow ABMS capabilities, said Gen. Luke Cropsey, the Air Force’s Integrating Program Executive Officer for Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management. […]

The U.S. Space Force is developing approaches to address the increasing demand for the Satellite Control Network (SCN), but lacks an updated long-term sustainment plan for the network, according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]

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The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command, along with the U.S. Air Force, is looking for feedback on its plans to conduct live, virtual, and on-orbit space cyber test and training events to boost training efforts for cyber professionals. […]

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The U.S. Space Force, the smallest and newest military branch, is looking to industry to serve as a leader in a number of innovative technology areas and to successfully collaborate with the service branch, according to Lisa Costa, Space Force’s chief technology and innovation officer. […]

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The newly established U.S. Space Force is building its workforce and develop its people, while primarily looking for people that have science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) backgrounds, Chief of Space Operations for the Space Force Gen. John Raymond today. […]

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The bipartisan version of the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) offers paid family leave for all Federal employees, prevents the White House from merging Office of Personnel Management (OPM) functions with the General Services Administration (GSA), and establishes the Space Force as a new branch of the military. […]

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President Trump today issued Space Policy Directive-4 (SPD-4) that orders the Secretary of Defense to create a legislative proposal that, if approved by Congress, would establish the administration’s proposed United States Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. […]

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday talked up progress that his Blue Origin unit has been making in developing space transportation vehicles and services to several hundred attendees–most of them in uniform–at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space, and Cyber Conference.   […]

While political and military leaders debate the pros and cons of whether the United States needs a separate “Space Force,” Chinese hackers have offered a reminder of two truths: operations in space are extremely important, and the assets used in space are vulnerable to cyberattack. […]

President Trump’s comment recently that it might be a “great idea” to have a “Space Force” may have seemed like an off-hand comment at the time, but it fanned the embers of what has been an ongoing and contentious debate between Congress and the Pentagon over whether a separate military force to operate in space like the Army on land, the Navy at sea, or the Air Force in the air is needed or would even be beneficial. […]

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