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To adapt to a warfighting landscape increasingly driven by digital technology, the U.S. military must pursue the implementation of zero trust with interoperability and collaboration in mind, according to public and private sector information technology leaders. Joseph Staier Joseph Staier, chief engineer for the Air Force’s enterprise information ...

Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space business area, has been named to Executive Mosaic’s 2023 Wash100 list of highly esteemed leaders who shape the government contracting narrative at the intersection of federal and commercial sectors. This marks the third time that he has been recognized as a Wash100 Award winne...

Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has secured a potential $87 million contract from a subordinate unit of the U.S. Space Force to provide logistics and systems engineering support for the Mobile User Objective System program. MTSI said Wednesday it will support space-related research, development, production, launch, sustainment and testing activitie...

The U.S. Space Force is looking to buy a 12th military satellite communication system to join the Wideband Global SATCOM constellation using defense appropriations for fiscal year 2023, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. A Space Systems Command spokesperson was quoted by SpaceNews as saying Congress allocated an additional $442 for the WGS program, which h...

The rapid growth of commercial space has unlocked exciting new opportunities for the U.S. federal government. Many of these possibilities lie in the field of geospatial intelligence, or GEOINT, and space-based imagery, especially with the recent development of 3D and 4D capabilities.  GovCon Wire spoke with six-time Wash100 Award winner&nb...

Space Systems Command has awarded Ball Aerospace a five-year, $78.3 million contract modification to manufacture a second satellite for the U.S. Space Force‘s Weather System Follow-on – Microwave program. Ball Aerospace will build the next WSF-M satellite with a passive microwave-imaging radiometer and energetic-charged particle sensor instrumen...

The commercialization of space has skyrocketed in recent years; the ubiquity of launch, the proliferation of commercial satellites in space and the rise of military activity in the domain has simultaneously accelerated space innovation and increased competition across the globe. For the U.S. government, industry’s growing footprint in space is unl...

The Space Systems Command has issued a request for proposals for a potential five-year, $950 million contract to procure data software services for the U.S. Space Force’s data management requirements. A solicitation notice posted Tuesday says the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract calls for a selected vendor to de...

ManTech will continue to provide specialized security support services to the U.S. Space Force under a one-year, $43.5 million contract modification. The company will help secure acquisition and operational mission areas at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. ...

Space Systems Command has released a new request for proposals for the Sounding Rocket Program-4 contract to expand the pool of vendors that could provide suborbital launch support for payloads and flight hardware and perform technical and concept analyses to facilitate the launch of space assets in support of research and development programs. Inte...