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Secretary Troy Meink and space acquisition advisor Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy laid out Space Force execution plans, SDA-style PAE reform, and a multi-year satellite buying push at Space Symposium 2026.
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Acting SDA chief Dr. Gurpartap "GP" Sandhoo told reporters at Space Symposium 2026 that Tranche 1 Transport Layer launches will restart in May or June.
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The future of military advantage may depend less on what you build and more on how fast you can buy it. In a statement released April 7, analyst Omkar Nikam […]
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The proposed doubling of the U.S. Space Force budget to 71 billion dollars for fiscal year 2027 represents a monumental shift in how the Department of Defense intends to dominate […]
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The satellite industry has built roughly 10 percent of the optical ground infrastructure it needs. Without 200 to 500 optical ground stations, the Pentagon's $35 billion PWSA and $185 billion Golden Dome programs risk becoming stranded assets — data moves flawlessly in orbit but cannot reach the ground.
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Europe is the only major space power building its smallsat sector on defense procurement rather than venture capital or state industrial policy. The demand signal is institutional, contracted, and accelerating.
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Following a year of aggressive expansion in the sovereign intelligence market, Finnish Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) specialist ICEYE is projecting revenue to exceed €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in 2027. In […]
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The core objective of the constellation is to provide the MoD with persistent imagery intelligence to strengthen Japan’s defense posture.
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The fight over the Space Development Agency's (SDA) budget was actually a proxy war between two acquisition philosophies: the SDA's open shop vs. a classified sole source alternative.
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PARIS — The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) has awarded Airbus Defence and Space a framework contract valued at €50 million to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into the French Armed […]
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