The intelligence community is increasing and improving its collaboration with the Space Force, U.S. officials said this week—indicating progress after months of discussions on how to sort out roles in the rapidly changing domain.
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The prospective next leader of the Pentagon’s intelligence enterprise was relatively tight-lipped about how she would help guide the division of space-based tracking and targeting among multiple organizations during her confirmation hearing July 11—though she did stress collaboration and the sharing of information.
WORLD: Space: Space Flag 24-1; China's growth in Space; LEO for moving target indication; and Part-time Guardians status sill unclear.
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A new study argues the Space Force should build its own targeting satellites rather than try to collaborate with the National Reconnaissance Office.
The Space Force and NRO will build a large number of targeting satellites to go in low-Earth orbit, the USSF’s top intelligence officer said May 2—keeping with the service’s emphasis on proliferating its assets. For months now, the two organizations have been working on a program ...
WORLD: Budget: Air Force Gets More; Space Force Gets Cut; Shrinking Aircraft Inventory.
The Space Force is making progress on its plan with the National Reconnaissance Office to enable space-based targeting and replace legacy Air Force aircraft, multiple senior leaders said at the AFA Warfare Symposium.
Last month, more than five years of collaboration between National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. Space Force culminated in the launch of their SILENTBARKER satellites, which will track objects and monitor activity in geosynchronous orbit. Now, the two organizations hope to use that same template of ...
There's a lot of technology out there to do moving target indication, whether it's airborne, you can get it from the ground and ground surveillance radars, you can do it from space to certain extent. But the reality is, you're going to need all of ...
World: Space: Space Force wants its own ISR satellites; Bentivegna is the next CMSSF.
As Air Force officials look to space to fill future gaps in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, the Space Force itself is still working on how it will fulfill that mission—and what capabilities it will need to have for itself, the head of Space Operations Command ...
