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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.
Tournear was placed on administrative leave from his role on Jan. 16.
Space Systems Command is moving out with a trio of projects — contracting with Northrop Grumman for two separate experiments, and with Astroscale US for the first on-orbit refueling operation involving a military satellite.
The program was designed to both to increase mobility and improve the jamming capabilities of the Space Force’s legacy Counter Communications System, to include providing multi-frequency jamming in S-band and X-band.
“Unfortunately, we were, we were slowed down a bit by uncertainty in our budget,” said SSC’s Col. Rob Davis, delaying awards for Epoch 2 of the Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Tracking — MEO program by about three months.
NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth confirmed that the agency and the Space Force are working on a memorandum of agreement that will set “procedures” to ensure that they don’t duplicate commercial imagery products.
[Sponsored] Northrop Grumman is one of the only companies with expertise and capability to design, build and operate systems across an array of orbits.
“It’s a way for them to understand what the threat is, but also they will have the ability to reach back to the government if they actually see something. So, we’re trying to have a give-and-take discussion,” Col. Richard Knisel…
“The US and France recently conducted our first ever bilateral rendezvous and proximity operation to demonstrate combined capabilities in space in the vicinity of a strategic competitor spacecraft,” SPACECOM head Gen. Stephen Whiting said t…