Weekly Briefing: Military Space

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Military Space Report

HAC-D Wants Space Acquisition Exec Post Filled Now HAC-D Chair Rep. Betty McCollum and the Ranking Member Rep. Ken Calvert used today's hearing to decry DoD's failure to fundamentally overall space acquisition.

Space Force Digital Vision Focuses On Speedy Decisions Gen. Jay Raymond, Space Force chief, stressed that the new digital vision applies not just to service acquisition, but to everything the newest military service does, with a bottom-line goal of speeding decision-making.

OCX On Track, Says Raytheon; Begins New Upgrade Once delivered and accepted, Space Force will own the OCX software-based ground system for GPS, not Raytheon.

US 'Will Fail' If Space Acquisition Doesn't Reform: CSPC Space acquisition reform so far has been focused on "small dollar" activities, with most big-ticket programs such as NSSL stuck in the bad old ways, says a new report by Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.

Exclusive: Army Plan May Loosen IC Grip On Sat-Based ISR "The Army needs information when and where they want it," said Rob Zitz, a former Army intel official. "The IC should not get a vote on what Army needs or how Army executes combat missions."

Space Development Agency Has Big Data Fusion Problem The hard part is structuring the data hand-off. Decisions will come up on how much data management takes place on the satellites and how they will use software-defined communications. Enter service politics.

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