The Space Force will stand up its newest delta with the formation of Space Delta 18, which will operate the National Space Intelligence Center. The new organization will be tasked with helping the Space Force to identify and track threats in orbit, both kinetic and ...
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Addressing members from every service earning advanced degrees from the Naval Postgraduate School on June 17, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond emphasized the importance of space to the Joint Force and in the new National Defense Strategy. Raymond, speaking at the NPS ...
Service members from other branches have a chance to switch to Space Force in the coming weeks, as USSF will accept applications for its interservice transfer program from June 15 to 30. The billets available are limited, though: only 243 slots—29 officers and 214 enlisted—are ...
After years of blocking the Air Force from retiring A-10 attack aircraft, the Senate Armed Services Committee will allow the service to proceed, but not with a new initiative to retire older F-22 Raptor air superiority jets. It also agreed to add seven more jets ...
A single “hooah” filled the atrium of the Electromagnetic Warfare Facility at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo., on June 15, where a former Army officer received his first salute as commander of the USSF's 4th Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron. Lt. Col. Nicholas R. Shaw became the ...
Atop a ridge 1,500 feet above the waters of Yokohama Bay on Oahu island are six giant white globes concealing antennas for the collection of space data. The intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data collected from satellites as they orbit over the Pacific is vital to ...
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee rolled out its draft version of the fiscal 2023 defense funding bill, cutting the Air Force’s planned buy of F-15EX fighters and moving to block any changes to the current system of “pass-through” funding. All told, the top line for ...
More than a dozen satellites and the Navy unit that operated them transferred into the Space Force when as the Naval Satellite Operations Center became the 10th Space Operations Squadron. The switch marks the first of several space-focused units transferring from the Army and Navy ...
The Space Development Agency is looking to buy 10 satellites capable of carrying experimental payloads to integrate into its National Defense Space Architecture. The planned new satellites are being referred to as the National Defense Space Architecture Experimental Testbed, or NExT, and will “demonstrate warfighter ...
