Frank Kendall III will testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 25 during his confirmation hearing to be the 26th Secretary of the Air Force. Kendall would succeed Barbara M. Barrett as the head of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force, ...
Uniformed Total Force Airmen and Guardians can work remotely under new guidance from the Department of the Air Force, building on lessons learned from the past year. The Air Force on May 18 released updated guidance on remote work and telework, which gives service members ...
The U.S. Space Force will move more into the role of providing space-based tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance—a role typically filled by the intelligence community—with a new ground moving target indicator capability possibly coming soon. USSF Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond ...
The stand-up of the Space Force, and now its early overhaul and the creation of a new Space Systems Command, are all about resilience: Ensuring that space capabilities, which the whole country relies on, could survive a concerted attack by a near-peer adversary. As part ...
The Department of the Air Force wants to know if you can hack its satellites. Registration for the second Space Security Challenge: Hack-A-Sat opened May 4, with the qualification event slated to run June 26-27. The top eight teams will move on to the next ...
Senior Department of the Air Force and National Guard officials are preparing to brief Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on plans for a combined Space Force Active and Reserve component and separate Space National Guard in the coming days. National Guard Bureau chief Army ...
U.S. Space Command and the Space Force are working on new ways to openly discuss their capabilities in orbit, to get around the lingering overclassification problem leaders have criticized while also ensuring the military can maintain deterrence against adversaries who are improving their own capabilities ...
Space is “pretty much the wild, wild West” with more satellites going into orbit and a large increase in space junk threatening assets. Meanwhile, the growing U.S. Space Force is working to establish operating norms in orbit to avoid added danger.
Former Undersecretary of the Air Force Matthew P. Donovan will lead the Air Force Association’s new Mitchell Institute Spacepower Advantage Research Center (MI-SPARC), serving as an independent voice advocating for U.S. space capability. Donovan was Air Force under secretary, Acting Secretary of the Air Force, ...
The Space Force has finalized which units from the Army and Navy will join its ranks, and the new service’s No. 2 said details on the transfers are coming soon. Space Force Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David D. Thompson, speaking April 21 during ...
Staff Sergeant Akia D. Carter is one of the Space Force’s first-ever Outstanding Airmen, Guardians, and Civilians of the Year. Carter is an Airman Leadership School instructor with the 30th Force Support Squadron, 30th Space Wing, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., where she is ...
Senior Airman Cassidy B. Basney, with the 50th Operations Support Squadron, 50th Space Wing, is among the Space Force's first-ever 12 Outstanding Airmen, Guardians, and Civilians of the year announced April 13. The Air Force Association will shine a spotlight on each of the 12 ...