PENTAGON: Frustrated with the slow pace of decision-making on the issue, National Guard leaders in states with space units are openly advocating in Congress for the creation of a Space Force National Guard. “As the adjutants general, we are individually approaching our congressional delegations,” Maj. Gen. David Baldwin, adjutant general of California, told reporters at…
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Defending U.S. naval forces in the Pacific, Red Sea, and elsewhere require a range of systems from close-in weapons to anti-ballistic missiles.
“I think maybe there is a mutual assured destruction in space,” Rep. Lamborn said, “where no one will go there because the consequences will be too severe.”
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“Creating a more range-balanced, survivable, and lethal force will require a commitment by DoD and the Congress to significantly increase the Air Force’s annual budgets,” CSBA says.
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Tournear says SDA is involved with wider DoD efforts to develop capabilities for multi-domain operations. The sapce agency’s planned satellites will serve as the “backbone” used by all the services to share targeting data.
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We offer an exclusive interview with the Air Force’s leading civilian and military officer for JADC2 development, Preston Dunlap and Brig. Gen. David “Kumo” Kumashiro.
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While service in-fighting for budget share is a perennial fact of political life, this year’s version resembles the fictional, to-the-death “Hunger Games,” as all the services struggle with an essentially flat 2021 DoD top line and a mandate to shift gears away from fighting against low-level insurgencies toward global competition with Russia and China.
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Modernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
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The Air Force will pick a telecommunications company to wire 17 bases in the Northeast with 5G sometime this quarter, says Air Force CTO Frank Konieczny.
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Space Force is looking to establish an independent identity, based on the legacy of the Air Force space community, but focused on “22nd century warfare,” says Maj. Gen. John Shaw.
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The radar upgrade is aimed at countering Russian cruise missiles.
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DoD currently maintains 17,000 terminals with “approximately 135 different designs,” GAO said. Those terminals operate across diverse platforms—such as ships, backpacks, vehicles — all with differing system requirements.
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In other words, the fault is not with the OCO mechanism, but in many cases, with members of Congress who are critiquing its use.
By Andrew Hunter
Senior Pentagon and service officials observed the last day of the ground-breaking ABMS exercise and the Air Force engaged Northern Command to create and manage the scenario.
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Creation of the Space Development Agency was “disconnected from the threat and the needs of the warfighter,” say Wilson, thus “highly unlikely to survive serious scrutiny.”
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