Americans are waking up to the fact that our military is not as ready or as capable as it needs to be. Just two years ago, 62 percent of Americans thought U.S. military strength was “about right” and 25 percent thought it was “not strong ...
Space
Space is the key to unlocking the potential of Joint All- Domain Command and Control.
Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David W. Allvin: “Within our Air Force, we were experimenting with ways that we could fuse data, doing these experiments that showed that you could actually cross domains and be able to get a better solution ...
Integrating commercial partners and priming an ever-accelerating development and acquisition process will define the future for Pentagon space programs, acquisition leaders predicted at the 2023 GovCon Wire Space Acquisition Forum on Jan. 18.
The U.S. Space Force and SpaceX successfully launched the sixth GPS III satellite into orbit Jan. 18, bolstering the crucial position, navigation, and timing constellation. The launch, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-40, took place at 7:24 a.m. Eastern, with the satellite riding SpaceX’s ...
Almost exactly sixteen years ago in early 2007, then-Lt. Col. B. Chance Saltzman was the commander of the 614th Space Operations Squadron, working at what was then called the Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The JSpOC was less than two years ...
With the Space Force still maturing early in its fourth year of existence, Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman wants to hone in on developing the service’s essential warfighting processes—and making sure Guardians can perfect them through practice. In a pre-recorded interview with the ...
The U.S. and Japan are expanding their security commitment into space as part of a series of new actions aimed at bolstering the countries' defenses against China and other threats in the Pacific. U.S. officials said “attacks to, from, or within space” could lead to ...
Accelerating commercial cooperation and leveraging resources are crucial to competing with China in a new space race, according to Air Force Maj. Gen. John Olson, mobilization assistant to the chief of Space Operations at U.S. Space Force. Olson’s remarks came during a National Defense Industrial Association ...
