A defense and national security business accelerator backed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and U.S. Space Force has selected eight companies to demonstrate commercial technologies designed to expand space domain awareness. Participants in the International Space Domain Awareness cohort will secure grant funding from program sponsor ONE Dev and hold in-person meetings once every […] More

Jen Easterly, director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has been named a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, the highest honor and most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for her leadership with CISA as the agency works to address the most critical cyber and ransomware threats and attacks against U.S. national security […] More

A Teledyne Technologies business has introduced air domain awareness and counter-unmanned aerial system capabilities for its lightweight vehicle surveillance system designed to detect and mitigate drone threats. Teledyne FLIR Defense said Tuesday the LVSS ADA C-UAS system uses a three-dimensional radar, electro-optical/infrared camera, multi-spectral imager and radio frequency sensors to identify and display a drone’s […] More

The U.S. Space Force seeks market information on services that could meet the business and financial management, executive, information technology and civil engineering needs of Hawaii-based space awareness management activities. USSF said Friday in a SAM.gov sources sought notice it may eventually launch either a small business set-aside, a partial small business set-aside or a […] More

TurbineOne has received a new U.S. Air Force contract to advance its machine learning capabilities for providing deployed warfighters with situational awareness. The San Francisco-based company said Friday the Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract calls for the continued development of the Frontline Perception System’s AutoML feature, which is meant to enable operators to […] More

United Launch Alliance is preparing to launch an Atlas V rocket with two U.S. Space Force satellites designed to support orbital situational awareness and national safety. The USSF-8 mission’s GSSAP-5 and GSSAP-6 satellites will fly to space and then operate from a near-geosynchronous orbit to inform orbital predictions under the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, […] More

Rhea Space Activity will continue developing a dashboard to boost space domain awareness under an award from the U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX innovation program. The company said Wednesday it will work to inform operational SDA requirements as part of a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award that provides for continued Lunar Intelligence Dashboard development. […] More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured a $2.8 million Department of Defense funding for prototype development effort aimed at providing commanders with quick access to space-related situational awareness data. The San Diego, California-based company said it will prototype a system for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force’s Unified Data Library by working on […] More

Scott Lee, cross-cutting priority co-lead for JADC2 at Mitre, said the U.S. needs a new command and control infrastructure to speed up decision-making processes across all domains and keep ahead of near-peer competitors. “We must shift from domain-centric to mission-centric effects, planning and execution. And that has to start with rethinking our C2 from the […] More

The Department of Defense is soliciting proposals that highlight commercial services that use machine-driven analytics to provide users of global navigation satellite systems with situational awareness capabilities to address GNSS disruptions. The Defense Innovation Unit said the solicitation centers on persistent and large-area scope of falsified GNSS emitters that lead to localized spoofing phenomenology. According […] More

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking information on a capability that can enhance its ability to detect anomalous or malicious activities related to 5G and internet of things devices. DHS posted a sources sought notice on Thursday for a 5G/IoT Situational Awareness System that builds on technology developed through previous Small Business Innovation Research […] More

Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the U.S. Space Force is set to launch on Sunday, June 13, a monitoring satellite aboard the Northrop Grumman-built Pegasus XL rocket to provide “space domain awareness” as part of the TacRL-2 mission, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Raymond said a new office […] More