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By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 04, 2021 at 12:29 PM An Army soldier sets up a highband antenna in Afghanistan. WASHINGTON: The Army’s eager to exploit fast-moving commercial tech, from data fabrics to communications satellites, as it urgently upgrades its battlefield networks. But what works for civilians — or even for the other services — won’t always work for ground troops dispersed across the globe in the mud and dirt. A simple example? Power cables. “A commercial off-the-shelf cable for a teenager that’s charging their battery while sitting on a couch is probably not t...

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 targets of interest. It might also mean the spacecraft would be able to remain active for a longer peri...

By   Theresa Hitchens on March 11, 2021 at 10:55 AM Satellite operators at the GPS master control center at Schriever AFB WASHINGTON: Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) is wrapping up the prototype phase of its ambitious effort to create a common tool kit for routine command and control (C2) of all DoD’s satellites. SMC now aims to have an acquisition strategy ready in time for the fiscal 2023 budget chop, officials say. “We are putting together that formal acquisition strategy,” Joshua Sullivan, SMC’s program manager for the Enterprise Ground Services (EGS) said in an intervie...

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 11, 2021 at 5:24 PM WASHINGTON: The Space Development Agency (SDA) plans to issue a request for proposals this summer for some 150 satellites to provide “initial warfighting capability” for communications and missile tracking, says SDA Director Derek Tournear. The new satellites, to be launched in September 2024, will comprise what SDA calls “Tranche 1” of its planned seven-layer National Defense Space Architecture. They will follow-on the 20 Transport Layer satellites for porting data to users and the 10 Tracking Layer missile warning and tracking...

"Information gathered up to and through Tracking Layer Tranche 0 will help inform decisions about future tranches, including how many and which types of sensors should be flown to provide the warfighter a complete advanced missile threat solution," SDA spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea says. By   Theresa Hitchens on January 29, 2021 at 1:01 PM