With the help of Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, the Space and Missile Systems Center today unveiled the final Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, DMSP-20, for display at the […]
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Space modernization up in the air as budget fight continues
The protracted budget stalemate is bad news for the Air Force’s 2018 space investment budget.
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Battle brewing in the Pentagon over military space investments
STRATCOM Commander Hyten frustrated with DoD procurement: ‘There’s not enough money in the Pentagon’s budget to buy another constellation of billion-dollar satellites’
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Congressman Rogers: A space corps is ‘inevitable’
Rogers: “By segregating space professionals in the Air Force into a separate organization, we can develop a culture that focuses on the number-one mission which is ‘space dominance.’”
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Space reforms coming: 2018 NDAA drops legislative bombshells on U.S. Air Force
NDAA doesn’t simply reject the Space Corps. “It slaps the Air Force pretty hard and appears to lay the groundwork for creating a separate department for national security space in the future.”
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An ‘enormous’ supply of bandwidth available for defense, military
In the government and military, there is a “great debate” on how to procure available satellite capacity.
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Pentagon procurement chief Ellen Lord: ‘Lots of needs, opportunity in space’
DOD officials are “looking at the gaps we have in our space architecture, how we fill the capability and what is the best way to do that.”
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Stretched Air Mobility Command Needs Better Comms
The U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command (AMC) is stretched thin across the world. Constant operations and disaster relief flights have created a situation in which the AMC flew twice as many hours as optimal from 2012 – 2016.
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Military space needs independent voice, says HASC Chairman Thornberry
Congress this month will decide whether there should be a “space corps” separate from the Air Force.
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Air Force exploring ways to protect satellite networks from cyberattacks
The military is confident that its own spacecraft are tightly encrypted and unlikely to be taken down by hackers. It worries, however, about the vulnerability of commercial satellites that host military payloads.
