Now, the first joint support ship won’t be delivered until at least 2025, while the second is supposed to arrive in 2027.

Most of the Navy’s ready ships support joint force deployments. U.S. Fleet Forces Command has some ideas for how to generate readiness the Navy can keep for its own priorities.

After two catastrophic collisions in 2017, the U.S. Navy moved forward with dozens of recommendations meant to ensure it couldn’t happen again. But during this process, something became clear: Despite spending billions of dollars on readiness initiatives, the Navy’s mishap rate hadn’t improved in the last 30 years.

Navigation Technology Satellite-3 will showcase advanced capabilities that could improve future GPS satellites or inform a new program to augment today’s constellation.

The launch of Recurve reveals the latest technological advancements in radio frequencies and information transmission in the increasingly contested environment of space.

The Space Force hasn’t finalized its plans for Phase 3 of its National Security Space Launch program, but its new acquisition executive said this week it is considering the possibility of including more launch vehicle classes as part of the contract.

The Army awarded Palantir Technologies and Raytheon Technologies $36 million each to turn their TITAN designs into prototypes, and the service plans to choose a single provider at the end of the 14-month phase.

The initial solicitation will be for 10 satellites, the agency expects the program to provide an “enduring” test and experimentation capability.

While the discussion of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at Europe’s largest land warfare tradeshow has focused on how militaries fight on the ground, Major Gen. Michel Friedling, the head of France’s Space Command, said Russia’s use of cyber and space weapons sent a critical message.