Space Operations
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If the U.S. military's modernizing efforts don't go faster than its aging process, the country's got a problem.
March 03, 2022 -
The Space Development Agency awarded OTAs to three firms, each of whom will need to launch interoperable satellites that conform to DoD's National Defense Space Architecture.
March 01, 2022 -
The agency's new "commercial supplier matrix" is intended to help intelligence analysts and other users sort through a growing mountain of space imagery.
February 25, 2022 -
The mixture of COVID and the addition of a new branch of the military are making this year’s CR particularly challenging for the military service personnel chiefs.
February 09, 2022 -
Former leader of DoD's CMMC program alleges her security clearance suspension and later elimination of her position were "politically influenced."
February 08, 2022 -
Most people think of Santa Claus when they think of NORAD. But the North American Aerospace Defense Command has a crucial mission that is ever evolving with new threats.
January 27, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a Postal Service banking pilot isn’t drawing many customers.
January 19, 2022 -
The service is still pulling and sharing data manually in many cases. The Air Force's chief information officer wants to change that.
December 20, 2021 -
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Thursday that the service just added its seventh imperative this week: Defining the B-21 long range strike family of systems.
December 09, 2021 -
DoD has funding for only five positions through 2023 for its new IP cadre. And the temporality of the jobs is an impediment to hiring the long-term experts DoD needs, according to the Government Accountability Office.
December 06, 2021 -
Only 800 active duty airmen and guardians, out of an Air and Space Force of about 326,000, said they will not get the COVID-19 vaccination, and will face consequences and possible termination.
November 03, 2021 -
New study, published this month in the journal Health Sciences Research, projected worse health outcomes for DoD beneficiaries even if as few as 10% of them were shifted to private-sector care.
October 25, 2021 -
The Senate Appropriations Committee unveiled a nearly $726 billion budget for the Defense Department in 2022, putting most of the extra funds in the procurement of new aircraft and ships.
October 19, 2021 -
The agency wants to “know where everything is all the time,” in the words of one official.
October 11, 2021 -
Navigation systems depend on measurement of magnetic forces around the globe, and the satellites that take the measurements are about to age out. But the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is on it with a special funding program called the MAGQUEST Challenge.
October 08, 2021
