“Key for us is allowing on-ramps, allowing for some smaller launches to have a chance,” a senior Space Force official told Breaking Defense, in order to avoid billion-dollar “Titan-era prices.”
By Theresa HitchensHow to ensure readiness of next-generation defense technology: Solving the issue of massive heat.
High-performance systems generate tremendous amounts of heat that can compromise missions and make high-tech systems less effective in tactical environments. But there is a solution to this modern-age challenge.
“The Space Force’s ambitious plans for new architectures, programs, and mission areas, do not appear to be backed up with credible budget projections in the outyears to actually deliver these capabilities,” House defense appropriators chide in report language accompanying their FY23 spending bill.
By Theresa Hitchens
The July reverse industry days on space domain awareness will allow Space Systems Command to get a closer look at the myriad industry efforts to see what the service might be able to simply acquire rather than have to develop itself.
By Theresa Hitchens
The member agencies of the Program Integration Council now are all “cross-cleared” so they can share information about their planned space acquisitions, said Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, head of Space Systems Command.
By Theresa Hitchens “2026 is the fight we’ve got to get ready for,” said Space System Command head Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein.
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Kendall’s memo was “a proactive effort by the department to support the Vice President, and ensure the Department of Defense can support Biden Administration efforts to foster a broader role for the commercial space sector in supporting a more resilient space capabilities,” an Air Force official told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
In 2022, the Pentagon will need to see real movement on acquisition reform to reduce long understood vulnerabilities that have been essentially ignored for many years.
By Theresa Hitchens
AI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
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
The Space Warfighting Analysis Center has started laying out force designs for critical operations, but will SSC be able to transition those blueprints into real-world acquisition programs, Lockheed Martin’s Eric Brown asked.
By Theresa Hitchens “We made it clear when we stood this up that it is going to be an evolutionary process, and that we just stood up the bare bones in the first year — because it’s hard enough to do that,” Rep. Mike Rogers said. “And we’re putting the flesh on the bones each year trying to mature it in a slow and pragmatic fashion, and do it right.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“Congress can hold politicals accountable — not so much with the uniformed officers,” one former DoD official said.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Our secretary has been very clear that he wants us to move rapidly from experimentation and demonstration to fielding,” says Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap.
By Theresa Hitchens
“By statute, this is scheduled to occur on one October 2022, but there is no need to wait them until then” to integrate the Space Development Agency into the Air Force’s space acquisition office, Kendall said. ere.
By Theresa Hitchens
Shawn Barnes, who has been serving as the de facto head of Air Force Space Acquisition and Integration (SAF/SP), has been transferred to the role of the director of Air Force Financial Management Legislative Liaison.
By Theresa Hitchens
