Bloomberg — NASA administrator Jared Isaacman says he’s confident that the agency will have the cash it needs to build its new moon base, an ambitious program that will need $20 billion over the next seven years and $30 billion over the next decade.

U.S. Department of War — Protecting America's space systems is essential for national security because so many military capabilities rely on them — including precision navigation, global communications, missile warning and real-time intelligence, said Space Force Gen. Stephen N. Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command.

GovConWire — As part of the contract, participating contractors must collaborate with an FFRDC like The Aerospace Corporation.

SpaceNews — Pentagon’s Test Resource Management Center issued the award, as part of its program to use commercial launch providers to supplement government test infrastructure.

DefenseNews — Space Systems Command announced that System Delta 84 completed the preliminary design review for its Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking program, a 10-satellite Epoch 2 medium Earth orbit constellation.

SpaceNews — One of the U.S. Space Force’s most sensitive missions — tracking foreign satellites and predicting whether they could threaten American spacecraft — is increasingly drawing on commercial data and artificial intelligence.

Air and Space Forces Magazine — Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said the U.S. Space Force is looking to add capability in areas like testing and training infrastructure and space weapon systems in fiscal year 2027.

Via Satellite — After years of Starlink holding a commanding lead in LEO broadband, analysts and industry experts see a shift in the constellation race. Aggressive launch schedules for new services, differentiated offerings, and geopolitics are all driving greater competition in an expanding market.

Breaking Defense — Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, who until recently was running the space acquisition program at the Department of the Air Force, has been shifted out of that office to serve as “senior advisor” to Secretary Troy Meink.

SpaceNews — The U.S. Space Force said it will not fly additional national security missions on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket until an investigation is completed into a performance anomaly during a Feb. 12 launch.