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Get to know the top AFWERX government contracts awarded by the U.S. Air Force here.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has done well to maintain strong ties with Biden despite the president’s open skepticism of the defense establishment.

Scientific community skeptical of Avi Loeb's claim of interstellar technology in the Pacific.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who continues to block hundreds of military promotions in protest of a Pentagon policy, said Wednesday on Capitol Hill that he thinks politics is getting in the way of putting U.S. Space Command’s permanent headquarters in Alabama, his home state.

The Red Skies exercise will focus on "mission planning and execution using orbital warfare modeling and simulation techniques" rather than actual live training, according to a spokesperson for Space Training and Readiness Command.

“No matter the domain, a commander is a commander, and their focus should be on leading their people,” said U.S. Space Force Lt. Col. Garrett Duff, 45th Comptroller Squadron commander.”

The 133 commercial space companies that provide systems for U.S. military use do not have automatic protection for those systems from U.S. Space Command

Looking for the latest Government Contracting News? Read about Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting Nominated to Lead US Space Command.

The nominations package also proposes to elevate Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, head of the Space Force's main acquisition arm Space Systems Command (SSC), to four star status and take over from Gen. D.T. Thompson as vice chief of space operations.

If confirmed, Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting will be responsible for the military's warfighting operations outside the Earth's atmosphere.