National Defense – The DoD’s 2024 Commercial Space Integration Strategy’s priorities: ensure access to commercial space solutions; achieve integration prior to crisis; establish security conditions that promote integration; and support the development of commercial space solutions.
Air and Space Forces Magazine – The successful launch aboard a Japanese H3 rocket is a milestone in the U.S.-Japan alliance. It marks just the third USSF payload to be hosted on a foreign-owned satellite.
SpaceNews – The Air Force named William Blauser as the acting director of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA). Blauser previously oversaw development of the B-21 stealth bomber and the X-37B military space plane.
Breaking Defense – The DoD’s acquisition office requests Air Force to set up an “independent review team” to assess “the current state of health” of all programs comprising SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).
Aerospace’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) acts as a critical bridge that facilitates this intentional movement of corporate technology and solutions to industry. As a new office established within the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), OTT made significant strides over the past year to elevate the pace and impact of Aerospace’s technology adoption.
Air and Space Forces Magazine – The executive order states that a plan needs to be ready before the budget for FY 2026 is prepared. It also calls for a boost in the Space Development Agency’s “Custody Layer,” a plan to field hundreds of satellites that transfer data and facilitate navigation.
Brig. Gen. Kristin Panzenhagen, program executive officer for Assured Access to Space at Space Systems Command, said: “We’ve been going up pretty steadily at about a 25 to 30% increase [of launches] per year, and I think we’ll continue to increase at that rate for at least the next couple years.
Space RCO selected 10 companies to participate in its inaugural Prime Fusion Pilot Accelerator Program, an initiative aimed at fast-tracking technologies to protect military satellites from orbital threats.
The Aerospace Corporation and Alphabet subsidiary Google Public Sector plan to jointly develop an AI model to predict geomagnetic storms days in advance.
SpaceNews – The GPS III SV-10 satellite will carry an optical communications terminal developed by German aerospace manufacturer Tesat-Spacecom.
