Daily Report: Trust Issues with SATCOM | New Deployment Model in AFCENT | ‘Graduation Exercise’ for LRASM
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Growing Commercial SATCOM Raises Trust Issues for Pentagon
News last fall that SpaceX owner and CEO Elon Musk restricted the Ukrainian military’s use of his Starlink satellite broadband service to stymie an attack on Russian forces highlighted the extraordinary power wielded in that war by a single business owner with some outlandish ideas. But ...
Daily Report: USAF Unfunded Priorities List | Cyber Force Idea Gets Boost | General Atomics Exec on CCA
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General Atomics Exec: CCA Will ‘Go Down in History’ for Putting Drones Front and Center
The Air Force has long embraced remotely piloted aircraft (RPA or drones) for over-the-horizon ISR and one-off strike missions and over two decades has come to see them as central in that role, General Atomics executive David Alexander said at a Hudson Institute event. But, ...
Daily Report: STRATCOM Boss on More B-21s | Space Futures Command Timeline | VCSAF on Data
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New Vice Chief: Air Force Failing to Exploit ‘Decisive Advantage’ Offered by Data
The Air Force’s cloud-based data lakes are becoming “data swamps,” clogged by huge troves of unstructured, uncatalogued, and therefore effectively unusable data, dumped in there by service elements overwhelmed by the huge task of curating, cutting and cataloging it. That was the message from new ...
Daily Report: Space Force’s New Cyber Standards | Instructors’ Errors Caused 2021 Fatal T-38 Crash | New Hackathon Coming Soon
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Space Force Finally Rolls Out Cyber Standards for Commercial SATCOM Providers
The U.S. Space Force finally rolled out new cybersecurity standards for its commercial satellite vendors on May 28, saying those who could meet them might be able to charge more. First mooted more than three years ago, the Infrastructure Asset Pre-Assessment (IA-Pre) program is designed ...
Daily Report: USAF, USSF Unfunded Priorities | Intercepting Russian Jets in the Baltics | GBSD’s Digital Twins
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GBSD Using Digital Twinning at Every Stage of The Program Lifecycle
The Air Force-managed modernization of America’s ground-based nuclear missiles has emerged as a test-bed for the use of digital twins—virtual models of real weapons systems—at every stage of the program lifecycle, its chief told the Space Symposium April 7. “What the digital environment allowed us ...
Daily Report: Your Air & Space Forces Association | Aircraft Divestments Could Top 1,400 | Deterring Russia in Eastern Europe
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LEO Constellations’ Connectivity Offers Risks, And Rewards, Execs Warn
Many of the more remarkable capabilities of the coming generation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations come from their extraordinary connectivity—they’re networked not just with receivers on the ground, but with each other, as well. But this connectivity also means an increased cyber attack ...
Daily Report: New Hypersonic Record | Space Force Dress Uniform Approved | Senior Leader Nominations
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Cutting Edge New LEO Constellations Will Use Familiar Link 16 Tech
The Space Development Agency’s experimental Low Earth Orbit (LEO) data transport constellation will employ bleeding edge new technology in space when it starts to launch later this year. But down on the ground, SDA Director Derek M. Tournear told the Space Symposium April 6, the ...
Daily Report: GBSD Gets a Name | Reports from Space Symposium | C-17 Crew Awarded DFCs
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US Must ‘Slash Costs’ to Afford Space Superiority, Raymond Says
The U.S. military can’t afford the new proliferated, multi-orbit satellite constellations it needs unless military contractors cut costs by an order of magnitude, the Space Force Chief said. “We must also slash costs,” Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, Space Force Chief of Space Operations, told ...
Hackers Attacked Satellite Terminals Through Management Network, Viasat Officials Say
The cyberattack that cut communications for thousands of European users of Viasat’s satellite broadband service was carried out by hackers compromising and exploiting the system that manages customer terminals, two Viasat officials told Air Force Magazine. Viasat shared information about the hack with its DOD ...
Daily Report: China-Russia Cooperation | F-35s for Germany | Cyber Troops Stretched Thin
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Cyber Troops Stretched Thin in Ukraine Response as NATO Builds Common Air Picture
The war in Ukraine has provided a wake-up call for U.S. military cyber defenders, who are facing hard choices about how to deploy limited resources, said Air Force Brig. Gen. Chad D. Raduege, the chief information officer of U.S. European Command.
Daily Report: Fiscal 2022 Funded | End of the Nuclear Debate | Cislunar Space to Be ‘Key Terrain’
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