AFRL last Thursday held a classified stakeholder meeting to discuss R&D to underpin future military operations beyond the traditional near-Earth orbits used today.
By Theresa HitchensModernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
“[N]obody was watching too closely to see just how far these Chinese components and hardware have infiltrated U.S. businesses,” one telecoms expert says.
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“As you surely know, there is a lot of emotion in this on both sides of the argument, making it as much political as it is legal,” said attorney Henry Hertzfeld of the DARPA plans.
By Theresa HitchensAdministration officials were quick to stress that US pursuit of space-based nuclear power sources has absolutely nothing to do with building nuclear weapons in space.
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“I just think it’s a little too late for trying to have a stamp on something. It is just trying to say that they did something,” said veteran space policy wonk Erin Neal.
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The US, Russia and China all could be building things in space within 15 years, an IDA study found.
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“We are interested in technologies to support wide area search, narrow field tracking, and autonomous space domain awareness,” says CHPS program manager Capt. David Buehler.
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B-21, hypersonics and more: How digital development is driving industry innovation
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US discovery and exploitation of rare earth minerals from the Moon and asteroids “could change the balance of power on Earth,” enthused NASA Administration Jim Bridenstine.
By Theresa Hitchens“If you look at the orbits of the stuff that’s going around the Moon, It looks like a drunken sailor wandering around as compared to the orbits that we’re used to describing closer to the Earth,” AFRL’s Col. Eric Felt says.
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“The United States Space Force is not going to be sending humans into space for national security purposes anytime soon,” Maj. Gen. John Shaw said today.
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“I think we need to recognize that the space domain has evolved over the past several years,” says Secure World Foundation’s Victoria Samson. “And then our governance needs to evolve with that.”
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“Putting non-maneuverable cubesats into LEO in densely populated orbits … is like putting go-carts on the freeway. Nobody would do that,” says Viasat’s John Janka.
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The “Agility Prime” event next week will kick off with speeches by Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett, Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and Air Force acquisition head Will Roper.
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The independent FCC seemingly “wrote these proposed rules mostly (if not entirely) in a vacuum, potentially failing to ensure White House directions in Space Policy Directives 1-through-4 were fully accounted for,” said one USG official with an eye on the debate.
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