In recent years, the Department of the Air Force has made significant strides in its modernization journey, but the service is still dealing with lingering issues, alongside emerging ones, as it continues to stretch its area of responsibility over two of the world’s largest, most quickly evolving domains. The DAF’s number one challenge today is...
The U.S. Space Force is conducting market research into potential vendors that can help the branch develop, implement, update and expand software platforms to defend its networks and associated computer systems. USSF said Wednesday in a SAM.gov notice that the government intends to procure industry services to support the Space Systems Command’...
SpiderOak has announced the appointment of military veterans and industry experts to the newly created space advisory board to provide guidance as the company works to deploy zero trust-based platforms and services to protect national security and commercial space systems and data from cybersecurity threats. The members of the board are Ellen Pawlik...
A.I. Solutions has secured a potential seven-year, $217 million contract from the U.S. Space Force for research and development services in support of the Space Systems Command’s Innovation and Prototyping Delta. The Lanham, Maryland-based space software applications developer said it will work with its team consisting of Actalent, Boecore, Parson...
A team of General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business and Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has received a potential $324.5 million contract from the Space Development Agency to build, operate and maintain ground entry points and operations centers for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture. The contract also in...
U.S. space agencies are prioritizing “integration by design” with mission partners, industry, academia and allied forces to tackle threats and deter adversaries in the largest and most highly contested domain today. Gen. James Dickinson, commander of the U.S. Space Command said the “partnered element” of the command’s approach to mission o...
Space-based missile tracking has become a top priority for U.S. space agencies as global adversaries’ use of hypersonic and long-range missiles continues to skyrocket, posing a significant threat to national security. Countries like China, North Korea and others have been building and testing an increasing amount of intercontinental ballistic miss...
Space satellites serve as the foundation for a myriad of civilian, military, economic and commercial operations within the U.S.; everything from cell phone service to GPS systems to weather forecasting operates based on data and insights gathered from satellites on orbit. However, this dependence is being jeopardized by the increasing democrat...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received three separate multi-year contracts from the U.S. Navy for the development of space vehicle terminals, procurement of hardware for weapon replaceable assemblies and delivery of support services for a mine detection platform. The Department of Defense said Thursday Northrop will provide the Navy with Relay Gr...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Mary Petryszyn, corporate vice president and president of defense systems business at Northrop Grumman, as a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient for her efforts to help enable military and allied forces to interoperate and network across all domains as well as to continue advancing defense capabilities and services....
