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The Navy’s newest, most advanced warships will all soon have one thing in common — the SPY-6 radar

The Navy’s newest, most advanced warships will all soon have one thing in common — the SPY-6 radar
The Navy’s newest, most advanced warships will all soon have one thing in common — the SPY-6 radar

The ability to track smaller and faster objects at longer distances gives naval vessels more time to respond to incoming threats.

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Space Force phasing out missile warning from GEO, will focus on lower orbits

Space Force phasing out missile warning from GEO, will focus on lower orbits
Space Force phasing out missile warning from GEO, will focus on lower orbits

“We’ll do away with the GEOs, and the big, exquisite expensive satellites,” said SDA Director Derek Tournear.

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Raytheon moves to preliminary design for Glide Phase Interceptor for hypersonic defense

Raytheon moves to preliminary design for Glide Phase Interceptor for hypersonic defense
Raytheon moves to preliminary design for Glide Phase Interceptor for hypersonic defense

After completing the System Requirements Review-Prototype phase, Raytheon moves on to preliminary design, inching closer to a prototype in its competition with Northrop Grumman.

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Hypersonic weapons meet speed-of-light defenses

Hypersonic weapons meet speed-of-light defenses
Hypersonic weapons meet speed-of-light defenses

See how Raytheon Missiles & Defense is developing high-power microwaves as part of layered air defenses.

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To track hypersonic missiles, Space Force to develop ‘at least’ 4 MEO satellites

To track hypersonic missiles, Space Force to develop ‘at least’ 4 MEO satellites
To track hypersonic missiles, Space Force to develop ‘at least’ 4 MEO satellites

A study by the Space Warfighting Analysis Center that determined a multi-layered network of satellites in Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO), highly-elliptical polar orbit, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) is necessary to provide comprehensive ballistic and hypersonic missile warning and tracking.

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Space Force’s $1B for hypersonic missile tracking in FY23 will go to new satellites, ground systems

Space Force’s $1B for hypersonic missile tracking in FY23 will go to new satellites, ground systems
Space Force’s $1B for hypersonic missile tracking in FY23 will go to new satellites, ground systems

Brig. Gen. Jason Cothern, Space Systems Command (SSC) deputy, told Breaking Defense that about $400 million of the new funds, if appropriated, would go procurement of a new MEO constellation as one part of multi-layered hypersonic missile tracking.

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Air Force ditches plans to buy first hypersonic ARRW missile in FY23

Air Force ditches plans to buy first hypersonic ARRW missile in FY23
Air Force ditches plans to buy first hypersonic ARRW missile in FY23

The Air-Launched Rapid Response weapon is getting $46.6 million in FY23 to continue development, but the future of the program remains cloudy.

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Space Force budget gets a big boost to $24.5B in FY23, focus on resilience

Space Force budget gets a big boost to $24.5B in FY23, focus on resilience
Space Force budget gets a big boost to $24.5B in FY23, focus on resilience

The FY23 request is $7 billion more than the $17.4 billion the service asked for in FY22, with much of it going towards R&D efforts.

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Congressional researchers identify key questions in America’s hypersonic race

Congressional researchers identify key questions in America’s hypersonic race
Congressional researchers identify key questions in America’s hypersonic race

Congressional Research Service report could shape lawmaker questions on hypersonics at next hearing, from funding to command and control issues.

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Budget bump allows early start for SDA’s $2.5B missile tracking sats

Budget bump allows early start for SDA’s $2.5B missile tracking sats
Budget bump allows early start for SDA’s $2.5B missile tracking sats

The Space Development Agency intends to issue a solicitation for 28 “Tranche 1 Tracking Layer” satellites within the next two weeks, a senior official said, with an eye on making awards to two vendors.

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Budget roadblock delaying Pentagon satellite program to track hypersonic missiles

Budget roadblock delaying Pentagon satellite program to track hypersonic missiles
Budget roadblock delaying Pentagon satellite program to track hypersonic missiles

A decision about whether to go forward this year with Tracking Layer Tranche 1 or wait until fiscal 2023 funds are available could happen “within the next few weeks,” said SDA Director Derek Tournear.

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Space missile warning system to include MEO backup in case of attack: Tournear

Space missile warning system to include MEO backup in case of attack: Tournear
Space missile warning system to include MEO backup in case of attack: Tournear

Space Development Agency will soon issue a request for proposals for the first 28 of its own missile tracking satellites in Low Earth Orbit, the agency’s chief said.

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China’s mysterious hypersonic test may take a page from DARPA’s past

China’s mysterious hypersonic test may take a page from DARPA’s past
China’s mysterious hypersonic test may take a page from DARPA’s past

“Calling it ‘breaking the laws of physics’ does not lead to rational scrutiny,” Secure World’s Victoria Samson said of the recent Chinese hypersonic test.

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Raytheon, Northrop, Lockheed to compete for hypersonic interceptor

Raytheon, Northrop, Lockheed to compete for hypersonic interceptor
Raytheon, Northrop, Lockheed to compete for hypersonic interceptor

The GPI is being developed to knock down hypersonic missiles as they glide through the Earth’s upper atmosphere at about 70 kilometers in altitude at speeds greater than Mach 5.

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