As commercial companies, universities, and research agencies develop new approaches to operating satellites at lower and lower altitudes, the Space Force is taking notice and considering how it might leverage those advances in both the near and long term.
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The Space Force has spent the past few years preparing for war. Now, it has fought one. The U.S. military has chronicled its strikes by sea and air on Iranian military sites in Operation Epic Fury, as well as its...
Thousands more Guardians. Hundreds of new satellites. Newly disclosed on-orbit weapons. At AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference in September, Space Force leaders laid out how the service is in the process of transforming from a small, secretive pocket of...
Modern warfare depends on the ability to move, integrate, protect, and exploit data at speed and scale. Yet operational timelines continue to compress, and military sensors, autonomous systems, and proliferated satellite constellations are generating increasing volumes of data. Designed for...
Airmen and Guardians in the Active and Reserve component, as well as civilian employees, in “mission critical and high-risk populations” are now required to receive influenza vaccinations annually to “preserve force readiness,” according to a recent Department of the Air Force memo.
For years now, Space Force officials have said the service is getting serious about defining its role and crafting an architecture for future cislunar capabilities. Now, the Space Force is taking steps to realize that vision, asking industry to rapidly invest and develop satellites and ...
The top Air Force commander on the Japanese island of Okinawa has clamped down alcohol and issued a curfew for junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians at Kadena Air Base for the next month. The order came roughly two weeks after a U.S. Marine was arrested ...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth plans to announce Sept. 30 that the Pentagon will slash the number of general and flag officers by 20 percent
Space Force Maj. Alyson Gleason and Capt. Stephen Richard just gave their highly technical service a tougher image by becoming the first Guardians to endure 18 punishing days of training to graduate from the Jungle Operations Training Course in Panama.
As the Space Force eyes a possible fivefold increase in the number of satellites it operates on orbit, defense officials are looking for ways to shore up the industrial base to support that growth, which is expected over the next three to five years.
Around 8,000 Airmen and Guardians currently have medical waivers exempting them from shaving—thousands less than just a few years ago but still about half of all the waivers across the U.S. military. The revelation comes shortly after the Department of the Air Force started directing ...
Air Force officials are exploring the idea of creating a new acquisition office to oversee the point defense mission, in the service’s latest move to intensify its focus on defending airbases from drone and missile attacks, Air Force Secretary Troy E. Meink said Sept. 14, ...