Each technique available now or in the foreseeable future for what is known as alt-PNT comes with a need to make size, weight, power and cost trade-offs based on what type of platform is being used, according to experts.
By Theresa HitchensMillennium Space Systems is delivering on critical missile tracking constellation
With programs like MTC, Millennium Space Systems is redefining what it means to be an operational prime – rapidly delivering operational small sat constellations on rapid timelines.
“I don’t want to take a very expensive, very, very capable [alternative] PNT system that belongs on, let’s say, a Stryker platform or an Abrams tank or something like that, and … stick it on the robot that is the one that I’m training to take first contact,” Michael Monteleone, head of the Army’s new All-Domain Sensing CFT, explained.
By Theresa Hitchens
Maxar has been working on the Army’s virtual map program since 2019.
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Space Force’s primary acquisition command, Space Systems Command (SSC), is seeking industry input on the possibility of building smaller, lighter and cheaper GPS satellites.
By Theresa Hitchens
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“Mission engineering” can integrate space and ground assets to push data to the edge.
By Breaking Defense The continuing delays in making the GPS jam-resistant M-Code signal available to military users “increase risk that U.S. and allied warfighters will be unable to conduct successful operations in future contested environments due to the lack of access to modernized GPS position, navigation, and timing (PNT) information,” the 2023 Annual Report of the Director of Operational Test & Evaluation finds.
By Theresa Hitchens “Ligado fails to plead any plausible facts to support its purely speculative claim that the Government has occupied its licensed spectrum,” alleges the DoJ motion to dismiss the satellite communication firm’s suit in US Federal Claims Court.
By Theresa Hitchens
What’s new in naval radars and missiles: Defending the Pacific
Defending U.S. naval forces in the Pacific, Red Sea, and elsewhere require a range of systems from close-in weapons to anti-ballistic missiles.
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Digital engineering and modern tools and processes offer near-term opportunities to improve satellite mission planning, data processing, command and control, and cybersecurity.
By Breaking Defense SDA Director Derek Tournear said next year his organization will begin launching the Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites for regional communications, which also will carry a “navigation message” embedded in their venerable Link 16 data links.
By Theresa Hitchens The lawsuit is the latest in a decade-spanning battle between Ligado and opponents in government.
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Pulsar-based PNT could be used in cislunar space — where the Space Force already is eyeing future operations — or farther out into the solar system where GPS signals do not reach, explained Paul Ray, NRL’s head of high energy astrophysics and applications.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Space Force has set contradictory requirements for the number of M-code capable GPS satellites, the Government Accountability Office found.
By Theresa Hitchens
In a rare tour of the GPS ops floor, Lt. Col. Robert Wray, commander of the Space Force’s 2nd Operations Squadron responsible for GPS operations, described the mission and why timing, more than anything, is critical.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The threat is racing to out pace us,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters in a budget pre-briefing on March 10.
By Theresa Hitchens
