Government/Military

[Via Satellite 04-12-2016] Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) has released the American Space Renaissance Act (ASRA), a massive legislative bill that directs the U.S. government to leverage the commercial sector much...

[Via Satellite 04-08-2016] U.S. regulators are grappling with how to ascribe the most appropriate policies for small satellites as their proliferation becomes more significant. Agency representatives and private sector executives,...

[Via Satellite 04-08-2016] The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is progressing with the Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1), shifting the program into Phase 2. The XS-1 program seeks to design...

[Via Satellite 04-08-2016] The U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center (USAF SMC) and the 460th Space Wing have confirmed that Command and Control (C2) of the...

[Via Satellite 04-07-2016] Lockheed Martin, current prime contractor for the GPS 3 satellites, has issued a competitive proposal to the U.S. Air Force as the military opens up future satellites...

[Via Satellite 04-06-2016] Northrop Grumman has submitted a proposal to the United States Air Force for the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) 3 program. The Air Force is looking to update the GPS...

[Via Satellite 04-05-2016] The U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeing growing demand for its Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) that provides free space weather products and services....

[Via Satellite 04-04-2016] UrtheCast has formed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to boost the operational effectiveness of the company’s upcoming OptiSAR...

[Via Satellite 03-30-2016] During his time working with the U.S. Air Force, Earl White, former Air Force senior executive and intelligence advisor at the U.S. Space Security and Defense Program,...

[Via Satellite 04-04-2016] The relationship between the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the commercial satellite industry has improved over the past few years, according to Eron Miller, chief...