“Comms, data relay, remote sensing, and even ISR and some other things — [these] capabilities are increasingly available in the commercial market,” Space Force deputy Lt. Gen. DT Thompson said today.
By Theresa HitchensNew Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
“Clearly, this is not what Congress intended,” one former senior DoD official notes.
By Theresa Hitchens
Instead of one mega-system to rule them all, the Enterprise Ground System (EGS) is building common components, from messaging standards to shared servers.
By Theresa Hitchens
“We’ll have communications capability up there within the next year or so,” said NORTHCOM commander Gen. Glen VanHerck.
By Theresa Hitchens
The question about who ultimately will be in charge of making decisions about what the Space Force buys will now fall to the incoming Air Force secretary, DoD Secretary Lloyd Austin and the Biden White House.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Space & Missile Systems Center has reaffirmed its choice of NSTXL to manage the public-private Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), rejecting allegations by The Washington Post.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. and Theresa Hitchens
“The fiction that SDA and SMC are working together is just that,” said a former senior DoD space official. “You know, they make nicey-nicey, but, the reality is that they’re not working together.”
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.
“As a new service, we have an opportunity here to really establish ourselves in a new way — leveraging digital technologies, and leveraging digital processes and practices in a new way,” says Maj. Gen. Kim Crider, Space Force acting chief technology innovation officer.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The Joint Force depends upon SATCOM communication services as part of its JADC2 and Internet of Things,” says Maj. Gen. Kim Crider, Space Force acting technology innovation officer.
By Theresa Hitchens
Space Systems Command will allow “competition between disruptors and prototypers and more traditional acquisition organizations” within the Space Force, says Gen. Jay Raymond.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Space Prime effort could support game-changing “space transport and logistics” capabilities, says Col. Eric Felt, head of AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate.
By Theresa Hitchens
“We will begin designing future ‘Prime’ programs focused on space, autonomy, energy, gaming, supersonics and microelectronics,” Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said.
By Theresa Hitchens
“We see a huge opportunity here to have a fused relationship with industry that will provide great advantage,” Gen. Raymond says.
By Theresa Hitchens
SMC is “working on innovative relationships with, believe it or not, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and some other places you wouldn’t think of as traditional spacefaring nations,” says Gen. DT Thompson, Space Force vice.
By Theresa Hitchens
