The report, co-chaired by former Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, encourages reforms in other parts of the government to speed up defense acquisition.
Military operators will be able (at least virtually) to ill be able to (at least virtually) "sit side-by-side, elbow-to-elbow with the SDA test team" as the various satellite "layers" are put through their paces.
The initial command and control gateway to earn a continuous Authority to Operate is changing multi-domain operations.
The emerging Indo-Pacific Warfighting Concept has been drafted, but still has "a ways to go as far as working through the Department of Defense," says INDOPACOM's head of requirements, George Ka'iliwai.
The next group of satellites, "Tranche 1 is going to be a big deal," says SDA Director Derek Tournear, ensuring troops have "persistent regional access" to comms and missile warning/tracking data.
"By this time we were supposed to already have done three major war games and a Globally Integrated Exercise. And we've only done one of them, and that one was less than satisfactory because of all the restrictions we had to put in place for COVID," Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten.
The verbal pat on the back by the Defense Secretary at the biggest Air Force event of the year signals the program's high priority for DoD writ large.
Consolidate network monitoring, performance management, and fault isolation into a single, comprehensive solution.
The Air Force will lead work on the concept for command & control, the Navy will lead joint fires, and the Army has logistics.
Facing down a assertive China and resurgent Russia, the Navy is overhauling its strategy development, education and wargaming offices.
“I stand by every word I said,” Modly said in a defiant statement after audio of his remarks leaked. But after a Pentagon spokesman declined to support him during an afternoon press conference, and negative public sentiment poured in, Modly reversed course in a remarkably contrite statement released Monday night.
Vice President Mike Pence still is scheduled to chair the upcoming National Space Council meeting despite the White House decision to cancel the public event.
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
"This is foundational to who we are," Goldfein says of the new all-domain operations warfighting concept.
An elite team of researchers from Fort Detrick and Walter Reed briefed the Army Secretary and Chief of Staff last night. But are funding shortfalls, reorganization, and Pentagon politics getting in the way?
The Pentagon is about to pitch Congress on a plan to move $5.7 billion from legacy programs to new modernization efforts. Some offices are going to feel some pain.
Creation of the Space Development Agency was "disconnected from the threat and the needs of the warfighter," say Wilson, thus "highly unlikely to survive serious scrutiny."