The full Senate on Sept. 22 OK’d $6.1 billion for military construction in Fiscal 2006 and nearly $71 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The appropriations vote was unanimous. Now, if the Senate would just look at the 2006 defense authorization measure. (DR, 09/21/05)
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.