While Space Systems Command hasn’t publicly expressed concerns, outside observers point out that there is a real possibility that only Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be able to undertake National Security Space Launches in the next few years.
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The nominations package also proposes to elevate Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, head of the Space Force’s main acquisition arm Space Systems Command (SSC), to four star status and take over from Gen. D.T. Thompson as vice chief of space operations.
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Spy satellites, classified payloads among the newly scheduled launches.
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“The capacity needed during times of crisis or conflict will exceed our steady state peacetime demand,” said Col. Rich Kniseley, who leads Space Systems Commands Commercial Space Office.
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Space Systems Command’s new Commercial Space Marketplace for Innovation and Collaboration (COSMIC) facility in Chantilly, Virg., will serve as the “physical headquarters” for the SSC Commercial Space Office.
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If a modern integrated operations network is the foundation of the home, the Unified Data Library is the electricity flowing through it, Space Force Chief Technology Officer Lisa Costa told Breaking Defense. Also, the SpaceVerse will come into play somewhere down the line.
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While there is no formal agreement, NRO and the Space Force have reached an informal accord to each use commercial imagery the other has acquired, and are in discussions about a potential DoD-IC “marketplace” to ease sharing.
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Millennium Space Systems is delivering on critical missile tracking constellation
With programs like MTC, Millennium Space Systems is redefining what it means to be an operational prime – rapidly delivering operational small sat constellations on rapid timelines.
The effort, called Space Test Experiments Platform 2.0 (STEP 2.0), aims to set up a consortium of providers who have flight-proven buses via an indefinite delivery/indefinite quality (ID/IQ) contract, Lt. Col. Jonathan Shea, STP director, said Monday.
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“It’s challenging. It’s not the status quo. We’re pushing the envelope with the Space Force,” Millennium CEO Jason Kim told Breaking Defense.
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“Looking at the data, there is more work to be done to meet the desired cost and schedule results, and we continue to drive program management discipline in line with my nine acquisition tenets and simple formula for going fast in space acquisition,” Frank Calvelli, head of space acquisition for the Department of the Air Force, told Breaking Defense.
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Col. Rich Kniseley, newly appointed as the head of SSC’s Commercial Space Office, told Breaking Defense on Wednesday: “I’m hoping to deliver a framework to leadership this summer.”
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Col. Rich Kniseley, who will lead the newly created Commercial Space Office, told Breaking Defense, “At the end of the day, I want to be a customer in the commercial market.”
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The overdue Satellite Control Network’s Life Cycle Sustainment Plan is expected to address the many ways space has changed since the last 2017 version, including the over-extension of too few antennas to communicate with too many satellites.
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“So we’re trying to have a full integrated picture from device to transport…to the cloud environment or the hosting environment where we can do our actual work,” Col. Jennifer Krolikowski said.
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