Weekly Briefing: Military Space

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Sandia's Atomic 'Avocado' Could Allow GPS-Free PNT The first-of-its-kind device, a vacuum chamber for containing clouds of atomic particles that drive quantum sensors, is about the size of an avocado.

Space Force Plans Up To $2.3B In COMSATCOM Contracts The planned buy with the largest potential value is for DoD-wide SATCOM services from commercial operators of p-LEO constellations, with multiple awards totaling $875 million slated in August 2022.

'Hundreds' Of China Hypersonic Tests Vs. 9 US; Hyten Says US Moves Too Slowly Gen. Hyten said he's "probably" going to approve "today or tomorrow a new requirement for Integrated Air and Missile Defense," which is a pillar of the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC).

SDA Scraps, Relaunches Data Transport Satellite Bidding After Protest SDA Director Derek Tournear told an industry audience today that proposals under the new OTA would be due the day before Thanksgiving. "You're welcome," he joked.

US, China, Russia Test New Space War Tactics: Sats Buzzing, Spoofing, Spying Models shared exclusively with Breaking Defense offer a rare glimpse into nation-on-nation run-ins in space as satellites follow, flee, and, allegedly, listen in on each other.

Has Space Force Helped Improve Space Acquisition? Survey Respondents Are Split While almost 20% of overall respondents believe that the Space Force is not effective "at all" at improving space acquisition, there is a major split between views of DoD and industry; just 4% of DoD respondents said Space Force hasn't helped, while 23% of industry respondents held that view.

Cyber Concerns, Classification Disagreements Lead Space Survey Results The first-ever Breaking Defense Space Survey gathered information from national security space professionals in government, the military, and industry.

Lockheed's Acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne Delayed "The Aerojet Rocketdyne transaction continues moving through the regulatory approval process, and we now anticipate closing in the first quarter of 2022," said Lockheed CEO James Taiclet.

Senate Appropriators Pile On Congressional Criticism Of Next-Gen Missile Warning Program Given the concerns from across the congressional landscape about Next-Gen OPIR's direction, "it's a reasonable assumption that there's some smoke somewhere there," said Capital Alpha's Byron Callan.

From Sensor To Decision: Maxar's Combined Offerings Support Next-Gen National Security Missions [Sponsored] Space-based intelligence for rapid decision-making will be a critical tool in the multiforce, multidomain landscape of the near future.

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