RAND Briefs Congress: America Faces Likely NatSec Launch Shortfall
RAND is warning Congress and the Air Force "that there may not be enough resources right now being allocated to launch" to mitigate the risks in NSSL acquisition plans.
Air Force To Kick Off E-4B Replacement Competition In 2021
The Air Force has set Feb. 12-13 at Hanscom AFB in Massachusetts as the first industry day for the E-4B replacement program.
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DoD Plumps SDA’s 2021 Budget, Despite Uncertain Role
The jump in R&D funding reflects SDA's ambitious plans to launch "dozens" of satellites by 2022 to create a skeleton architecture in Low Earth Orbit to provide communications between satellites and ships, aircraft and ground-based weapon systems; track advanced missile threats including low-flying hypersonic cruise missiles; and to support targeting of adversary mobile ground systems.
Lamborn, Horn Pledge Bipartisan Support For Space
"I think maybe there is a mutual assured destruction in space," Rep. Lamborn said, "where no one will go there because the consequences will be too severe."
New Warhead Fuze Gets Tested In 1st 2020 Minuteman III Launch
This is only the second time reporters from non-local media have been allowed to tour an ICBM test launch site and get briefed. Theresa and a small group of reporters will be allowed to watch tomorrow night's launch.
SDA To Demo Tracking & Targeting Satellites In 2022
Tournear says SDA is involved with wider DoD efforts to develop capabilities for multi-domain operations. The sapce agency's planned satellites will serve as the "backbone" used by all the services to share targeting data.
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JADC2 gets its first C2 gateway authorized to update itself
The initial command and control gateway to earn a continuous Authority to Operate is changing multi-domain operations.
MDO Exclusive: Air Force Targets Primary Role in Joint C2
We offer an exclusive interview with the Air Force's leading civilian and military officer for JADC2 development, Preston Dunlap and Brig. Gen. David "Kumo" Kumashiro.
Budget Battles: IC Costs Mean Air Force Gets Short Straw, Say Advocates
While service in-fighting for budget share is a perennial fact of political life, this year's version resembles the fictional, to-the-death "Hunger Games," as all the services struggle with an essentially flat 2021 DoD top line and a mandate to shift gears away from fighting against low-level insurgencies toward global competition with Russia and China.
Air National Guard F-16s First To Fly Fifth-Gen Radar
The radar upgrade is aimed at countering Russian cruise missiles.
16,000 AFSPC Head To Space Force; What About The Rest?
And there are rumbles about a bureaucratic food fight between planning cells at Air Force headquarters here and at AFSPC in Colorado Springs.
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Cybersecurity skills don’t come from a manual, but from practical hands-on training
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
Air Force Wins Big In Defense Spending Bill But Space Force $$ Whacked
The 2020 defense spending bill gives the Air Force $3.0 billion for the B-21 bomber program and $960 million for Next Generation Air Dominance in RDT&E money.
Lawmakers Question R&E Oversight; Pump MDA Funding
The 2020 mandates an independent study of whether MDA should be moved from R&E to the purview of Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S) Ellen Lord.