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While not necessarily a near-term possibility, Brig. Gen. Kristin Panzenhagen said the Space Force is “looking at increasing the resiliency, increasing the ways that we have to get assured access to space, that’s where the these initial dis…
The smaller SBI price tag enabled by the drop in launch costs could be offset by the need for a much larger number of satellites to fulfil Trump’s Golden Dome plan, the Congressional Budget Office study caveats.
Gainey noted that the MOS 40D mission area will include operating the service’s expanding ground-based electronic warfare arsenal for disrupting adversary space and counterspace systems.
“This will be a next-generation capability being introduced by Ursa Major for hypersonic technology,” Ursa Major CEO Dan Jablonsky told Breaking Defense.
The FCC’s concerns echo those from DoD and the Space Force about the ease of GPS jamming — and the rapid rise in deliberate jamming by governments and militaries in hot spots around the world such as Syria, Ukraine and the Red Sea.
There are a lot of hopes within DoD and the Space Force for Project Kuiper’s success, with officials seeing the constellation as offering diversity beyond Starlink in the supplier base for so-called proliferated LEO services.
“COCOMs reported after these tests that J-REN and SlimGIMS not only met the capability gap, but also reduced the time to create a collection request from an hour to 5 minutes,” an NGA spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
The document argues that the US needs to establish space superiority as a precondition for winning a war, and explains that the Space Force does that by exercising “space control.”
While the current focus on the TacRS program is space domain awareness, Col. Bryon McClain, SSC’s head of Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power, said other sorts of operational missions might be undertaken in the future.
Following the release of the report today, Alabama politicians began touting the new OIG report as justifying a Trump move to reverse Biden’s basing decision.