U.S. Space Command should seek to work with and buy from commercial industry as much as possible, the Space Force general nominated to lead the combatant command said July 26. Lt. Gen. Stephen N. Whiting’s comments at his Senate confirmation hearing follow on recently announced plans ...
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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. 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 ...
For years, Congress has pushed the Air Force, and the Space Force after it, to increase competition within its space launch enterprise, to move beyond the one or two companies the military has long relied on to send its satellites into orbit. And now that ...
While the Air Force is looking to retire hundreds of old assets to free up money for new systems, don’t expect the Space Force to follow suit, said the head of Space Systems Command. Even as the Space Development Agency—soon to transition to be part ...
Commercial satellite communication providers who want to sell their services to the U.S. military will have to meet the same voluminous cybersecurity standards imposed on federal agencies themselves—plus additional ones specific to space and national security, according to a Space Force official. The move comes ...
Within 30 days, the Space Force office that buys commercial satellite services for the Department of Defense will publish a timeline for the implementation of new cybersecurity standards that private-sector satellite communication providers must meet if they want to compete for contracts to supply the ...
It is “only a matter of time” before cybercriminals and bad actors start launching attacks on commercial space assets, the deputy commander of U.S. Space Command warned Aug. 9. Space Force Lt. Gen. John E. Shaw, speaking at the virtual Small Satellite Conference, predicted that ...
At a session presented at the cyber conference DEF CON last week, The Aerospace Corp’s top cybersecurity expert briefed attendees about the growing problem of closed-source, proprietary software in commercial spacecraft. Such programs are difficult to test for vulnerabilities that could let a hacker break ...
As military operations in space move farther from the Earth, the commander of Space Operations Command believes Guardians joining the Space Force now may eventually need to enter orbit or transit through space to make quick decisions to protect American interests in space. The Space ...
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