"NGA Maven is now available to all services and all combatant commands. There are 20,000 active users through more than 35 service and combat and command tools across three security domains," said NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth.
"COCOMs reported after these tests that J-REN and SlimGIMS not only met the capability gap, but also reduced the time to create a collection request from an hour to 5 minutes," an NGA spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
Consolidate network monitoring, performance management, and fault isolation into a single, comprehensive solution.
The National Reconnaissance Office has "grown and evolved and recognized, just as well as we have, that they have responsibilities that are not traditional" with regard to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance from satellites, said Space Force vice chief Gen. DT Thompson.
"I think it's a really important part of where we go to is just looking at how we can have that sort of electronic warfare type of capability to allow us to deter attacks or certainly interfere," the head of Australia's Defense Space Command said.
"Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the importance of a persistent space surveillance capability," said the United Kingdom, as European nations (and Canada) band together.
Even as Canada acknowledges growing importance of space in defense, Jessica West of Canada's Project Ploughshares said, "The creation of a division within the military [structure] rather than a standalone force points to the integration of space across military functions rather than a ‘warfighting’ orientation."
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
DoD investments in small satellites to date are mostly in the realm of communications and remote sensing, says OUSDR&E's Doug Schroeder.
"Our nation shouldn’t rely on providers who take shortcuts or ignore security in their development and operations. As we grow more dependent on network capabilities we need to up our game,” says Andrew D'Uva, industry chair of the Commercial Space INFOSEC Working Group.
"It seems that, within the US government and elsewhere, there are agencies that want to have more and more access more times a day over the areas that they care about," Jim Thomason, VP of Imagery Product at Planet told me in an interview this week.
The new rules mean that if imagery can be bought in a foreign country, US operators will now have a right to sell it.
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
Gary Blohm, director of the Army Geospatial Center, said 3D is important to troop training and to operational planning because it "helps us navigate, especially when we get to urban environments."
NGA's Global EGD program is a good example of how the 2017 bifurcation of authority over commercial remote sensing acquisition between the NGA and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- a transition that remains somewhat troubled --is supposed to work.
The new satellite export control rules being finalized by the Commerce and State Depts. will take into account the "need to maintain export controls with some countries, while streamlining them for others," says Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
US Space Command will officially stand-up on Aug. 29, with four main missions: "missile warning, satellite operations, space control and space support," says JCS Chair Gen. Joseph Dunford.