Monthly Briefing: Military Space News and Analysis

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Space Force Strategy Out In 'Months' In Time For Budget "At the end of the day, anyone who's using satellite communications doesn't really care where that information comes from," Lt. Gen. William Liquori says.

Trump Directive A 'Wakeup Call' For 5G Satellite Cybersecurity "Rather than imposing specific requirements, SPD-5 affords all government stakeholders a policy framework to implement prudent practices to enhance resilience, including specific efforts to work with the commercial space sector overall and promote information sharing. That's an improvement from the status quo," Andrew D'Uva, US industry chair of the Space Force/NSA's Commercial Space INFOSEC Working Group (CSIWG) says.

Link 16 To Tie Legacy Platforms To SDA Satellites Future satellite vendors will need to "show you can plug your WiFi into our WiFi and get a signal," says Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear.

Industry Says 'Meh' To DoD Cislunar Space Push At the moment, industry sources say, there is no money to be had for developing systems for DoD's cislunar operations.

Exclusive: Milley To OK New Unified Command Plan; Defines SPACECOM's Roles "They're cleaning up a bit of 'the who's in charge' of deciding which mode is a particular sensor going to be in on any given time of the day," one Pentagon expert said of the UCP's changes to SPACECOM's roles.

Commerce Should Take DoD Space Safety Mission: Study "The DoD system is not scalable to meet the demands of a growing number of objects in space and to deal with an increasing number of space operators," the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) report says.

Air & Space Forces Add Cyber To All-Domain Ops Data Library "Data is key to space. It's critical to all-domain operations; it's a centerpiece to it all," says Maj. Gen. Kim Crider.

Kratos Targets Ground System 'Revolution' "We think that p-LEO is a big deal. And there's got to be a revolution that has to hit the ground segment, says Phil Carrai, president of Kratos's space, training and cyber division.

Spacepower Is 'Catastrophically Decisive' In War: New Space Force Doctrine "Because military spacepower has the potential to be the difference between victory and defeat, it must be viewed with equal importance as military power in any other domain," the Spacepower Capstone Publication says.

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