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Military Space Report

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Learn how Raytheon Intelligence & Space is using modeling and simulation to deliver products faster, smarter and more cost-effectively.

Space Force Expands Commercial Launch Services Pool The OSP-4 contract vehicle targets both mature launch providers and emerging companies approximately one year from being launch capable, according to SMC.

Next Budget Will Limit Glide Phase Interceptor Contractors: MDA Head "We're gonna down-select … later in the year. Then I have to worry about future budgets, and so that's what's really going to throttle" the number of contractors, says MDA Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill.

Seamless Space, Air, Missile Defense Key SPACECOM Goal The Joint Force, he said, "should," and "will" in future "use space strategic warning assets to meet tactical level ground requirements," says Gen. Jim Dickinson, SPACECOM head.

Army Says It Wants Space Capabilities, Not Sats "We do not intend to fly satellites in the Army," said Rick De Fatta, director of the Army's Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence.

JROC's Next Target: 'Integrated Air & Missile Defense' "I would like to have overhead sensors that see everything, characterize everything that goes on on this planet from a missile perspective, all the time everywhere. … That's unobtainium right now," says VCJCS Gen. John Hyten.

Army's IBCS Starts Operational Testing Next Month: SMDC's Karbler "It means that our adversaries are growing increasingly bold in their hostile acts of using ballistic missiles cruise missiles and UAS," Lt. Gen. Karbler said. "They're crucially bold in their conduct of irresponsible space activities. It means the Joint Force will demand more from the Army's Space and Missile defense capabilities and expertise going forward."

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DoD Launching Experiment For Space-Based Hypersonic Missile Detection SDA and MDA need to characterize the Earth's infrared background — which has "a lot of complex shapes to it, clouds, land and stuff like that" — in order to "pull out the dim signal" of a hypersonic missile, an SDA official explained.

'What Do You Need Humans For?' Space Command Deputy Says AI The Future Being able to provide space domain awareness about the cislunar environment is one mission for which robust AI/ML capabilities will be critical, said Lt. Gen. John Shaw.

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