Audrey Decker
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Air and Space Reporter at Defense One
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1 week ago |
defenseone.com | Audrey Decker |Ben Watson
A years-long debate over SPACECOM’s headquarters was rehashed in a Tuesday report from the DOD inspector general. Pentagon officials initially chose Alabama over Colorado because it would be roughly $420 mil cheaper to construct the command’s headquarters there, the report found. But the Biden administration reversed that move in 2023, deciding to keep the headquarters in Colorado Springs.
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1 week ago |
defenseone.com | Audrey Decker |Ben Watson
Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports The Trump administration wants to turn a long stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border into an Army base in an extraordinary move that’s likely to be challenged in court, U.S. officials told the Associated Press on Monday, three days after the White House released a memo entitled, “Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions.” In that memo, President Trump said he wanted this...
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2 weeks ago |
spaceproject.govexec.com | Audrey Decker
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The head of U.S. Space Command is calling for weapons to be deployed in space, the most explicit call yet for offensive space capabilities. “It's time that we can clearly say that we need space fires and we need weapon systems. We need orbital interceptors. And what do we call these? We call these weapons, and we need them to deter a space conflict and to be successful if we end up in such a fight,” Gen. Stephen Whiting said Tuesday at Space Symposium.
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2 weeks ago |
spaceproject.govexec.com | Audrey Decker
Two emerging rocketmakers have received a key greenlight on their road to competing for Space Force satellite launches. Service officials announced Thursday that Rocket Lab and Stoke Space will join Blue Origin, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance as contenders for future launch missions.
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3 weeks ago |
defenseone.com | Audrey Decker
China is rapidly building out its arsenal of counterspace weapons: everything from ground-based lasers to satellites that can grab other satellites, all of which pose a “grave threat” to the U.S., according to Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman.
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