The company also is providing a ground system for the sensors that could provide data about interference threats to users across the Defense Department and Intelligence Community, said Josh Hartman of GEOST’s parent firm.
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.
SDA plans to purchase and deploy a minimum of 54 space vehicles equipped with infrared sensors from up to three vendors under the new solicitation for Tranche 2 of its Tracking Layer constellation.
By Theresa Hitchens
While SDA plans to use lasers to connect its hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit to each other and to the ground, that technology remains in its infancy.
By Theresa Hitchens
The award to Northrop Grumman Space Systems has a total value of approximately $733 million; the Lockheed Martin award, approximately $816 million, the SDA release said. All totaled, the Space Development Agency up to now has awarded nearly $4.5 billion for the Transport Layer.
By Theresa Hitchens
SDA Director Derek Tournear also shed some more light on the agency’s new, highly secretive FOO Fighter program to develop new fire control quality tracking satellites.
By Theresa Hitchens The new “Fire-Control On Orbit-Support-To-The-War Fighter (FOO Fighter or F2)” program “will accelerate the ability to provide new fire control options for the tactical users,” an SDA spokesperson told Breaking Defense. But how does it play with MDA programs?
By Theresa Hitchens
The plan is to grant two contractors Other Transaction Authority awards to design and build the “Alpha” variant of SDA’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer satellites, with delivery of the first four in time for a September 2026 launch.
By Theresa Hitchens
Modernizing 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.
The development and testing processes enabled by the new software environment will be game-changing, because in the end it will allow “satellites to be upgraded in space,” SAIC’s vice president for space, David Ray, told Breaking Defense.
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US government alignment and international demand drive business reorganization.
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Russian and Chinese anti-satellite tests are responsible for “pretty much 20 percent” of “conjunction” warnings, that is predictions that two space objects are likely to collide, in 2022, said the State Department’s Eric Desautels.
By Theresa Hitchens
The draft National Space Authorization Act would also push Space Force on integrating commercial data and on over-classification of space programs.
By Theresa Hitchens
Spy satellites, classified payloads among the newly scheduled launches.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I am concerned about the transition of HBTSS from the Missile Defense Agency to the Space Development Agency. The apparent shift in strategy to deploy this capability does not reflect the urgency of the hypersonic threats we face,” Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., chairman of the House Armed Service’s strategic forces subcommittee, told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens Tournear said today that there will be a total of 216 Transport Layer satellites orbited for what the agency calls its Tranche 2 configuration, which will begin launching in 2026.
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