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

ULA, SpaceX Nab 5-Year NatSec Launch Contracts ULA's immediate award is $337 million for two launches. SpaceX's won $316 million for one launch, Will Roper said.

GPS Anti-Jam M-Code Takes Two Steps Forward Once 24 GPS III satellites are on orbit, the encrypted M-Code for military users will be available world wide.

AFRL's First WARTECH Summit To Vet Cutting-Edge Tech "It's gonna hurt a little bit," said new AFRL Commander Brig. Gen. Heather Pringle. "We can't do everything — we don't have the budget to do everything under the sun."

Army Tests New All Domain Kill Chain: From Space To AI Experimental AI software, Prometheus and SHOT, can turn masses of data – from both government and commercial satellites – into precise targets for long-range missiles and cannon. But what do the humans do?

NRO Taps AI For Future 'Hybrid Architecture' "Artificial intelligence and machine learning onboard the satellites to help us control the constellations is absolutely critical," says NRO Director Chris Scolese. For ground stations, too.

BAE Angles For GPS M-Code Market "These GPS receivers provide secure and resilient position data that can help our PGMs be more precise," explains BAE spokesperson Mark Daly.

Despite COVID-19, Space Launch Numbers Holding Steady The Space Foundation's analysis shows a whopping 73 percent increase in the global space economy between 2009 and 2019: from 245.06 billion to 423.8 billion.

Air Force Wants More Time On Space Acquisition Czar The Air Force and OSD have agreed to transfer the Space Development Agency to the Space Force "around the beginning of 2023," said Shawn Barnes.

DoD Needs Plans To Protect Commercial Space Industry, Says New Study "Our mission in the Space Force will become to protect that commerce, and I like to talk about it in terms of protecting the 'celestial lines of commerce,' or the space lines of commerce," says Col. Eric Felt, head of the Space Vehicles Directorate at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).

Space War: US To Meet With Russia; Rolls Out Warfighting Doctrine For the first time in seven years, the US and Russia will formally meet to discuss norms of behavior in space — even as both nations build capability for war in the heavens.

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