Space Force will own next-gen neighborhood watch sats, based on commercial tech
Space Systems Command expects to issue a draft request for proposal by the end of the calendar year, a Space Force spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
Space Force
NATO investing $728M in new space capabilities, including a new ‘data lake’
NATO’s collectively funded space efforts are focused on space domain awareness and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, Col. Jonathan Whitaker, who heads the NATO Combined Forces Space Component Command, told Breaking Defense.
NRO needs AI to manage more than 200 (and counting) satellites, director says
Chris Scolese envisions an NRO constellation user saying, “‘I want to know how many ships are in the Taiwan Strait’ … and then the system could go off and do it.”
Space Force to get NOAA antennas to supplement Satellite Control Network
Space Systems Command is prototyping a Joint Antenna Marketplace to offload some of the SCN’s burden and expand its capacity by using existing commercial and non-DoD agency antennas, rather than building costly new ones for the network.
SSC to finish ‘system delta’ reorg next month
The three new Space Systems Command (SSC) system deltas in the pipeline will be responsible for acquisitions related to space combat power, assured access to space and positioning, navigation and timing, SSC Commander Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant told Break…
Beyond ‘potpourri’ of sensors: Saltzman pushes holistic approach to space domain awareness
The service needs to more detect and track on-orbit activity, and find objects that have been “lost” to its surveillance network, Chief of Space Operations Gen . Chance Saltzman said.
For Golden Dome to work, it needs to be put to the test
Rigorous end-to-end systems testing is imperative and needs to happen soon for Golden Dome for America to be a success, according to this op-ed from Sarah Mineiro.
Space Force cell explores reorg to push commercial data to military
The reorganization of the JCO will involve two elements: setting up processes for JCO to provide commercial space monitoring data directly to operators and establishing an acquisition pathway for that data.
House Intel Committee props up FY26 funding for NRO commercial imagery buys
The bill also directs the Director of National Intelligence to appoint a single official to oversee the acquisition of commercially available information by all IC agencies.
Anduril, Impulse to demo maneuvering satellite, with sights set on Space Force missions
“I just think freedom of maneuver is going to be the enabler for every space mission going forward,” said Gokul Subramanian, Anduril’s senior vice president of engineering.