Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron was “re-designated” on April 13 as the “18th Space Defense Squadron,” but will remain SPACECOM’s key provider of space domain awareness.
By Theresa HitchensEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
Cox said allies “want to participate” in US force design efforts, “but in a way that benefits their own requirements.”
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A quarter of experts on space policy debate whether the US needs to be more open about its space capabilities.
By Aaron Mehta
US leaders this year faced difficult decisions against a backdrop of rapidly growing challenges from potential adversaries, and a booming commercial space sector that innovation-wise is leaving the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community in the dust.
By Theresa Hitchens
Adm. Christopher Grady appears poised to become the military’s second highest ranking officer.
By Justin Katz
“The key to success is frank and open discussion … tearing down those information sharing barriers, to be sure that we’re truly interoperable,” said Australian Air Commodore Nicholas Hogan.
By Theresa Hitchens
A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
“This issue of classification and the challenge it presents to public discussion is … part of the reason why we wrote this report. There’s nothing in the public domain like this,” says CSIS’s Kaitlyn Johnson.
By Theresa Hitchens
“It may not get to exactly what I want, but it’ll be better than to get nothing that I want,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown says of his recent talks with Congress about the service’s budget plans.
By Theresa Hitchens
No current cloud, commercial or military, lets frontline troops access both classified and unclassified data from all over the world, Dana Deasy told Breaking Defense. That makes JEDI unique – and too complex to split up among multiple contractors.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“[I]t is fair to say that IC and DoD efforts have not always been aligned optimally, whether in acquisitions or operations,” said Maj. Gen. Michael Guetlein, NRO’s deputy director.
By Theresa Hitchens
Raymond said that by next year “there will be a separate officer that would command US Space Command; I would be focused as the CSO for the Space Force.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“We have a fairly well-positioned and growing counterintelligence activity across the organizations,” the official said, adding that the shift to DoD has created “what is arguably the single largest security-focused agency in the federal government.”
By Paul McLeary
In mid-August, Breaking Defense revealed a push inside the Pentagon to take a black anti-satellite system, declassify it and make a public demonstration of its capabilities. Surrounding that issue is a long-running debate about how much of its space capabilities the US should keep secret. In this op-ed, Christopher Stone of the Mitchell Institute argues…
By Christopher Stone