Space Development Agency

A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket, stands ready at space launch complex 40, shortly before the launch was scrubbed because of a technical issue at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. The payload on the rocket is the U.S. Air Force's first Global Positioning System III space vehicle and the system will augment 31 current operational GPS satellites. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Space Development Agency looking into alternatives for GPS

SDA Director Derek Tournear said the agency is exploring alternative ways for positioning, navigation and timing that don’t rely on GPS.

Space Operations

Telecommunication, planet Earth from space, business communication worldwide, original image furnished by NASA - https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss040e090540/iss040e090540%7eorig.jpg

Big breakthrough for beyond-line-of-sight communications in the U.S. Military

Defense

U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)

A U.S. Army Soldier prepares a RQ-11 Raven B for flight during the field training portion of a Unmanned Aerial System operator’s course on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Oct. 10, 2018. The course was held by the New Jersey Army National Guard’s 254th Regional Training Institute, which is based out of Sea Girt, N.J. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)

Pentagon to build unmanned systems to compete with China

Defense

(Photo by: Staff Sgt. James Richardson Jr.)

Space Force embraces middle tier acquisition for satellites

Acquisition

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Steps to take now for defense acquisition reform

Acquisition Policy

(Staff Sgt. Kayla White/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Space Force calls its new satellite acquisition program a win

Acquisition

(Courtesy Photo/SDA)

The Space Development Agency lands upon a new, permanent home

Federal Newscast

DoD awards nearly $2B to build first satellite-based ‘backbone’ of JADC2

Space Operations

Moving more TRICARE patients to civilian care would cause ‘significant harm,’ study finds

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Space Force wants to reorganize some offices as it continues setting up

Space Operations

SDA preparing to buy 150 satellites in next tranche of military space architecture

Defense

DoD is centralizing space acquisition, but still has bugs to work out

The Air Force is reorganizing its space acquisition office to better support the Space Force and other new space entities, but there are still questions…

Air Force

DoD’s Space Development Agency shows how fast the FAR can be

DoD’s new Space Development Agency solicited and awarded a major, multimillion dollar systems integration contract via the traditional FAR-based procurement…

On DoD

Some agencies do a better job looking into employees playing hooky

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office says not all agencies have been tracking time and attendance fraud consistently.