Utah Makes Good on Gift: We reported earlier that UTAH local and state officials had offered to buy some equipment for Utah military facilities—they delivered. The Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill AFB, Utah, has received $4.4 million worth of equipment out of a $5 million donation, raised predominantly by the Utah Defense Alliance. The money for Hill bought four lathes for the 309th Maintenance Wing.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.