ST. LOUIS — As commercial companies increasingly put more computing power on their satellites and related systems, there needs to be a commitment by industry and users to bolster the cybersecurity of these technologies, the Defense Department’s top information officer said on Wednesday. “Let’s have cybersecurity on those capabilities, whether it’s on the downlink, whether…

ST. LOUIS — Earth observation data would be useful to the Border Patrol and its agents in the field to improve situational awareness around things like washed out trails and changing tactics used by illicit actors near the border, an agency official said on Tuesday. Agents want imagery immediately to know if a “street that…

ST. LOUIS—As space becomes increasingly competitive, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is helping its Defense Department partners keep tabs on the space domain, the agency’s director said on Monday. “And make no mistake, distinguishing friendly from unfriendly behavior in space has become particularly important to us,” Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth said at the annual GEOINT…

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded four contracts aimed at flying synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites in formation to demonstrate novel imagery collection techniques and enable the development of new algorithms to process the radar data from multiple satellites. The awards to Umbra, Terran Orbital’s PredaSAR unit, Northrop Grumman and Jacobs were made in late 2022 and…