Weekly Briefing: Military Space

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Military Space Report

DARPA's 'ROCkN' laser-based clocks will know what time it really is, to the sub-picosecond Optical clocks in labs today "fill out a huge room, a big room with a very complex, very sophisticated apparatus that takes multiple PhDs to run," Tatjana Curcic, who manages DARPA's Robust Optical Clock Network project, told Breaking Defense.

New Pentagon report censors details on weapons programs' performance, flaws "By caving to pressure inside the Pentagon and hiding unclassified information behind a pseudo classification, the current leaders of DOT&E are undermining the effectiveness of their own agency," said Dan Grazier, a fellow with the Project on Government Oversight.

Getting lost: Yet more delays to Space Force protected GPS program Some services have turned to commercial solutions for receivers as delays mount, report says.

Hypersonics and cyber tools: Pentagon's innovation hub highlights FY21 tech transitions The Defense Innovation Unit published 26 solicitations in fiscal 2021, awarded 72 prototype other transaction contracts (an increase of 31% from FY20) and received 1,116 commercial proposals.

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China's SJ-21 'tugs' dead satellite out of GEO belt: Trackers "I think there are more questions than answers right now when it comes to SJ-21," Todd Harrison, director of CSIS's Aerospace Project, told Breaking Defense.

Lockheed-Aerojet merger on life support, facing FTC lawsuit "We cannot afford to allow further concentration in markets critical to our national security and defense," an FTC official said.

Hydrosat plans LEO sats to map literal hot spots for military, commercial users CEO Pieter Fossel explained how the temperature of the ground, for instance, can be a critical factor for helicopter-borne special operations missions.

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