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By Washington Technology staff Apr 22, 2021 LinQuest has been tapped by the Air Force to help continue the development of the U.S. Space Command under a one-year, $31.7 million contract. The contract was awarded as a sole-source acquisition. LinQuest will provide advisory and assistance services and knowledge-based services to help Space Command become fully operational. Work will take place at Peterson Air Force Base and Schriever Air Force Base, both in Colorado. The contract runs through Apr...

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Aerospace & Defense Roundup: April. 20 ESA Bets On Automation, Coordination To Avoid Space Debris Confronted with the seemingly ever-worsening issue of space debris, European Space Agency (ESA) experts expect automation to help with collision avoidance maneuvers, along with better coordination between satellite operators. Credit: Joseph Hidalgo-The Aerospace Corporation UK Study Envisions Distributed Aviation Concept Electric aircraft propulsion will lead to the creation of ...

By Lauren C. Williams   U.S. Space Command is launching a dedicated joint cyber center for better integration with U.S. Cyber Command, said its commander Gen. James Dickinson. "We are standing up a joint cyber center within the command as we speak," the general testified during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with the U.S. Strategic Command and Space Command to review the fiscal 2022 budget request and Future Years Defense program. "I also have, as a result of the command standing u...

“Critically, given the vulnerability of large, fixed bases and shore-based infrastructure to long-range precision strike and the challenges of adequately defending that infrastructure, the stand-in force must be able to perform these functions from a strictly expeditionary and highly mobile posture.” Gen. Berger outlined in the journal article that the new Marine mission will include reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance of People’s Liberation Army forces and activities from waters cl...

The U.S. Strategic Command Just Casually Tweeted About Nuclear War On 4/20/21 at 7:43 AM EDT The U.S. Strategic Command has suggested its adversaries may consider nuclear use in a bizarre tweet released in the middle of Monday night. "Posture Statement Preview," the agency prefaced the tweet which was issued just before midnight E.T. "The spectrum of conflict today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly d...

2021-04-20 11:05:23 GMT2021-04-20 19:05:23(Beijing Time) Xinhua English BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Indulging in the superiority as the worlds superpower, the United States habitually claims itself as the "defender of international law", blames unscrupulously other countries and slaps arbitrary sanctions on them under the pretext of safeguarding international rules. However, the United States in fact makes its selfish political gains first and puts its national law above international ...

This week in Congress: Details on the Afghanistan withdrawal plan 2 hours ago Navy HM2 Joshua Hervas, assigned to Marine Embedded Training Team 1-12, takes part in a patrol near the village of Dehayat, Afghanistan, on Nov. 7, 2009. (Capt. Rock Stevens/Army) Biden administration officials will brief members of Congress this week on the decision to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan later this year, one of a series of high-level closed-door military briefings on Capitol Hill this week. M...

By   Theresa Hitchens on April 19, 2021 at 12:54 PM Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO), DARPA image WASHINGTON: DARPA’s effort to develop nuclear ‘engines’ for far-roving satellites also hopes to demonstrate the capability to keep “timely” tabs on spacecraft operating near the Moon, says program manager Maj. Nathan Greiner. While cislunar surveillance doesn’t require nuclear-propulsion, such a spacecraft could move more rapidly into position to monitor tar...

Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital Congress. The House and Senate are both in session this week. The House will take up the DC statehood bill (H.R. 51), the NO BAN Act (H.R. 1333), which would prohibit religious discrimination in immigration-related decisions, and the Access to Counsel Act of 2021 (H.R. 1573), which would require lawyers to be given to migrants in danger of deportation. The Senate will consider the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act (S. 937), which addresses the increase of ...