Government/Military

Brendan Carr is now chairman of the FCC after President Trump signed an executive order designating Carr to the position on his first day in office on Jan. 20.  Trump...

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Olivia Trusty as a Republican commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission, Trump announced Jan. 16. Trusty is currently the policy director for the U.S. Senate Committee...

Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) will keynote the opening of the GovMilSpace program at SATELLITE 2025.  Whitworth has served as director of the NGA...

Voyager Space rebranded as Voyager Technologies, seeking to emphasize its role in national security and space innovation, the company announced Jan. 16.  The company restructured its operations into three segments:...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) selected 13 companies to provide geospatial intelligence under the Luno B contract, the agency announced Wednesday.  Luno B is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract...

Slingshot Aerospace was awarded $1.9 million from the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) to develop Slingshot’s GPS jamming and spoofing detection for international security, the company announced...

BlackSky Technology won a one-year extension with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for the Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) contract for its satellite imagery. BlackSky announced the extension on Jan. 14,...

NASA has added Neutron launch services to Rocket Lab’s existing Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) contract, Rocket Lab announced Jan. 9. Rocket Lab has been eligible for NASA...

BlackSky has won multiple contracts for its analytics services through a new pilot program from the U.S. Space Force’s Global Data Marketplace (GDM), the company announced Friday.  The Global Data...

A question mark for the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) has been whether one company’s satellites would link with other companies’ birds, but...