Monthly Briefing: Military Space News and Analysis

The latest military space news and analysis from Breaking Defense

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Monthly Report Military Space

Under Senate's Eye, NRO, NGA Stress Commercial Imagery Plans "NGA expects unclassified space-based geospatial data to become ubiquitous and widely available," says NGA's David Gauthier.

Senate NDAA Mandates NRO To 'Maximize' Commercial Imagery Use "This language from the SASC serves notice that they intend to keep a close eye on the NRO's commercial remote sensing program," observed Keith Masback, a former senior defense and intelligence official.

2019 Space Economy Solid; Pandemic A Double-Edged Sword SIA is hopeful that the COVID-19 pandemic will have only limited effects on the satellite industry, since it has been "generally deemed essential by governments."

Air Force Boosts High-Speed Contract Pool For ABMS "Agile operations require agile technology. Agile technology requires agile acquisition. Agile acquisition requires agile contracting," says Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap.

AFMC Tests New Software To Speed F-16 Upgrades "I've been a huge proponent for colorless money," says AFMC head Gen. Arnold Bunch.

Upgradeable Birds: AF Taps Hypergiant For 'Reconfigurable' Satellites By deploying smallsats in LEO, operators and users can continually test, demonstrate, and create new procedures for offensive and defensive counter space while inserting new and emerging technology into mission architectures," Hypergiant CEO Ben Lamm says.

New Iranian Missile Could Strike Central Europe: Analysis On the 22nd of April, Iran surprised the world by successfully launching the Noor satellite, using a previously unknown Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV) which they call Qased. The US Space Force confirmed that Noor reached orbit, together with a second object, assessed as the spent upper stage. A detailed analysis of the Qased, based on…

SASC Wants Alternative GPS By 2023 "I think this shows that the committee is taking the jamming and spoofing threats to GPS seriously, and it is prompting DoD to focus its efforts on countering these threats," Todd Harrison, director of the Defense Aerospace Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says.

FCC Cracks Under Hill Pressure On Ligado 5G Network "I'm very confident going forward that we've made a decision that is based much more on sound engineering as opposed to some of the fear mongering that we've heard," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says.

New Coalition Widens Opposition; Inhofe, Reed Draft Anti-Ligado Bill Dale Leibach, Keep GPS Working spokesperson, says that already "about one-third — Republicans and Democrats — of the Senate oppose" the Ligado plan.

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