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Space Force Strategy Out In ‘Months’ In Time For Budget

"At the end of the day, anyone who's using satellite communications doesn't really care where that information comes from," Lt. Gen. William Liquori says.

COVID-19: Raymond Says No Impact On Space Ops; Space Fence Operational

As for the new name for Space Force troops, Gen. Raymond said the crowd-sourced search resulted in "over 700 responses" and that his staff is now "narrowing down the list." Our opinion: Space Cadets, Space Marines and Space Troopers are NOT likely, no matter how cool they might be.

Space Force Wants $5B For Anti-Jam Satcoms

PTS is not a satellite per se, rather it is envisioned as a payload that could be carried by US military, commercial or even allied satellites.

Whither Nuclear Command, Control & Communications?

Most of the system that allows the president to launch nuclear weapons and to know what the enemy is doing with theirs is ancient. No one yet agrees what it must replaced with. And no one knows how much it will cost, although late last month the Congressional Budget Office issued an estimate of $77 billion.

Army Struggles To Streamline Its Networks For War

ARLINGTON: As the Army hardens its networks against Russian-style jamming and hacking, it can’t afford the time or money for another high-tech, high-cost, multi-year mega-program like the failed Future Combat Systems. Instead, the service mostly has to make the best of what it has. That requires an array of unglamorous improvements to its crucial networks: […]

EXCLUSIVE Air Force Weapons Schedule Woes Worsen; Costs Dip $229M

  PENTAGON: For the third year in a row, Air Force weapon programs have busted their schedules, taking longer to field, this time adding another 112 months to the 29 major weapons programs that the service monitors. It’s a pattern. In 2012, schedule performance “continues to remain problematic and shows no signs of improvement.” In 2013, […]

US Can’t ‘Stick Our Heads In The Sand’ On Space Threats: Gen. Shelton

WASHINGTON: Watch the skies. While they’re far from falling, the head of Air Force Space Command said today, the heavens aren’t the “peaceful sanctuary” they once were, either. Nothing short of a nuclear missile could pull the plug on a satellite constellation as robust as the Global Positioning System (GPS), Gen. William Shelton said, semi-reassuringly. […]

Intelsat Readies For ‘Epic’ Foray Into Military SatCom

WASHINGTON: For more than a decade, the US military has fumbled and groped and stumbled and, gradually, figured out ways to buy a mix of commercial satellite communications and dedicated military satellites so it could communicate and watch video from Predator, Global Hawk, and Reaper drones in theaters where military bandwidth was precious. For much […]

Here’s Your HASC Markup Handbook With Amendment Predictions

CAPITOL HILL: Tracking the winners and losers of this year’s House authorization markup — the draft bill produced by the House Armed Services Committee — is one of Washington’s most exhausitng pastimes. The final bill often does not appear until 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or even later in the morning the day […]