Space Force

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) --  Capt. Kristine Kovacs, formerly 4th Space Operations Squadron Weapons and Tactics, and Specialist 4 Jack Wallace, 4th SOPS Tactician, Exercise and Integration, spearheaded an initiative within the 4th SOPS and Space Delta 8 to integrate Saber Astronautics’ Space Cockpit Battle Management System as their Common Operating Picture on their operations floors.This allows Barbara Golf, the U.S. Space Forces Space-Combined Joint Force Space Component Commercial Integration Office director, to share non-classified Joint Commercial Operations commercial space domain awareness data, including electro-optical, radar, passive RF observations and orbital positioning data to feed this COP through the Unified Data Library....

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AFNS) --  The closing session of the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space, and Cyber Conference consisted of a panel of Department of the Air Force leaders and their spouses discussing the importance of family support for military readiness, Sept. 18.Panelists included Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman and his wife, Jennifer Saltzman; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin and his wife, Gina Allvin; Chief Master Sgt. of the Space Force John Bentivegna and his wife, Cathy Bentivegna and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force David Flosi and his wife, Katy Flosi.Connection amongst service members was a common theme with the panelists as they identified various ways in which Airmen and Guardians can make mea...

WASHINGTON (AFNS) --  Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, in a Sept. 18 letter to congressional leaders, itemized the significant challenges a continuing resolution of any length would pose to the Air Force and Space Force.“A CR of any length impacts DAF readiness, hinders acceleration of the Space Force, delays military construction projects, reduces aircraft availability, and curbs modernization in our race for technological superiority,” Kendall said in his letter to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.“A CR also sets us back in meeting the pacing challenge presented by the People's Republic of China, which continues to invest heavily in capabilities designed to prevent the United States and its all...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AFNS) --  The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command awarded four agreements to Astranis, Axient, L3 Harris, and Sierra Space to produce design concepts for Lite Evolving Augmented Proliferation one of the Resilient Global Positioning System program.   R-GPS provides resilience to military and civil GPS user communities by augmenting the GPS constellation with proliferated small satellites transmitting a core set of widely-utilized GPS signals. The decision to pursue R-GPS was based upon outcomes of recent resilience studies recommending an additional proliferated fleet of small GPS satellites.  A mix of traditional and non-traditional defense space companies were selected for this initial award based on the...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AFNS) --  Lt. Gen. David N. Miller, Jr., Space Operations Command’s commander and Chief Master Sgt. Caleb Lloyd, SpOC senior enlisted leader, updated thousands of participants on SpOC’s progress toward meeting rising threats at the Air and Space Forces Association’s annual Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Sept. 19. Miller joined leaders from multiple Department of the Air Force organizations for a panel entitled, “Exercising for Great Power Competition.” Miller brought the Guardian’s perspective to the panel, which also included Air Force Gen. Kevin Schneider, Pacific Air Forces commander, Air Force Gen...