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U.S. NatSec Implications of an Independent Greenland
Greenland has surfaced as no longer a peripheral issue discussed on the sidelines of NATO summits.
08/31/26Read it on RealClearDefenseInside the Pentagon, the Pressure Is On To Find a Home for a New Spaceport
Space Force considering options: public-private, federal installation, state land....
1d agoRead it on Ars TechnicaU.S. Military Gives Elon Musk’s SpaceX Access to Sensitive Tracking Data
This gives the company an advantage in tracking objects in orbit, raising national security concerns and fears of greater control over the space...
2d agoRead it on The GuardianSpace Force’s Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) Initiative
Space Systems Command officials said the contracts are an initial step for the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) initiative, and don't...
2d agoRead it on Breaking DefenseSpace Force Shifts Into High Gear on Cislunar Warfare
Gen. Stephen Purdy, the Space Force’s portfolio acquisition executive for advanced programs, said the service wants to field cislunar capabilities by...
5d agoRead it on Breaking Defense
Faster Simulations, Better Defense Decisions
Every system the U.S. military fields carries a line item that never appears in a budget justification book. No program office tracks it, and no auditor asks about it. It is the cost of the analysis that was never run.
In mission-critical engineering, teams face a choice they rarely say aloud: fast or accurate. A single high-fidelity simulation of a complex physical system can take days or weeks. One aircraft component can require on the order of 10,000 simulations to understand across its operating conditions, and an aircraft has millions of components that all have to work together.
SDA Transport Satellite Constellation Grows Larger As Integration Lags
With more than 80 satellites aloft, the U.S. Space Development Agency faces an integration challenge as future users count on the forthcoming mesh...
1w agoRead it on Aviation Week
Don't Let a Commercial Space Grab Put American Aviation at Risk
The Trump Administration deserves credit for its National Space Transportation Policy, which calls for more than 1,000 U.S. launches and reentries a year by 2030, cementing American leadership in space for a generation. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is right to ask what it will take to get there, including the radio spectrum that rockets and aircraft depend on for communications, tracking and telemetry.
However, buried inside this same review is a petition that has nothing to do with expanding opportunity, and everything to do with a land grab. A commercial space trade group, the Commercial Space Federation (CSF), is petitioning to dismantle the longstanding coordination system used to manage spectrum for flight testing of America’s fighters, bombers, missiles, passenger jets, and advanced air mobility systems. The FCC should reject this petition outright.
Multi-Constellation Networks Need Multi-Constellation Ground Stations
Rightly, the Pentagon has decided that the future of military satellite communications should not depend on one network or supplier. But putting...
2w agoRead it on RealClearDefenseTrump Nominates New Space Command CO, Vice CNO
If confirmed, Space Force Lt Gen David Miller would become the commander of SPACECOM, which oversees military operations in space, and Navy Vice...
3w agoRead it on Stars and Stripes
Washington Cannot Ignore Afghanistan’s Weapons Legacy
By Saima Afzal • RealClearDefense
Moral Injury at One O'Clock
By Jeff Hood • RealClearDefense
The Mirror-Life Trap: When Deterrence Must Prevent Invention
By Lawrence J. Kaiser • RealClearDefense
The Pentagon’s AI Agents Could Complete the Mission and Still Leak Secrets
By Burak Oktenli • RealClearDefense
A Passage to the Middle East: India as a Mediator and Security Partner
By Irina Tsukerman • RealClearDefense
U.S. Intel Confirms This Is China’s Secret Spaceplane
By Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone
Navy Sees 10-year High For Class A Aviation, Afloat Mishaps
By H. Mongilio, USNI News
U.S. Navy To Install AI Vessel Detection System on Five Destroyers
By The Defense Post
U.S. Navy’s CHAOS Program
By Dylan Malyasov, Defence Blog
Two U.S. Navy Carriers Ready to Operate New MQ-25A Tankers
By Global Defense News