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View of Earth from space at night showing illuminated city lights and glowing data network lines connecting various points across continents, symbolizing global communication, technology, and interconnected digital infrastructure. The image highlights the curvature of the planet with a bright sunrise over the horizon and deep space background. Maps from NASA: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/144875/earth-at-night-black-marble-2012-color-maps-v2

SpaceX wins $4B deal to accelerate deployment of aircraft-tracking satellites

The Space Force's Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator will serve as an option to replace AWACS aircraft and bolster its AMTI capabilities.
GenAI.mil Excite Day featured: Representatives from Google and the GenAI.mil team to meet and greet, answer questions, and share what’s coming. // Three stations set up with computers/monitors: (1) Real-time demos with Google, (2) GenAI.mil Getting Started videos and web interactive, (3) Training opportunities and pre-registration for a specialty Agent Designer course. // Visits from USD(R&E) Honorable Emil Michael and CDAO Mr. Cameron Stanley. (DOD Photo by Photo by Jeffrey Herbert)

DOD expands its classified AI work with 8 companies — excluding Anthropic — amid ongoing dispute

DOD announced new agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office at the White House on May 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced his plans for the “Golden Dome,” a national ballistic and cruise missile defense system. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Space Force names 12 companies to develop Golden Dome’s space-based interceptors

Under the OTA agreements, the 12 firms will develop and demonstrate space-based interceptor prototypes by 2028.
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The L3Harris-built Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) satellite launched on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NTS-3 will be used for a variety of experiments to include testing on-orbit, next-generation technologies that assist warfighters in contested environments. (L3Harris photo.)

Space Force mitigating impacts to programs amid grounding of Vulcan rocket

“We are actively looking at several launches coming up to see what we can do,” Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess told lawmakers Wednesday.
An AC-130J Ghostrider gunship assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command flies near Hurlburt Field, Florida, June 6, 2025. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Tori Haudenschild)

AFSOC looks to add Starlink terminals to Ghostrider gunships

AFSOC is conducting market research for “ruggedized Starlink/Starshield integration solutions onto AC-130J Ghostrider," according to a recent request for information.
U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program launched the USSF-36 mission carrying the U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) spacecraft, at 11:50 p.m. EST (8:50 p.m. PST) into orbit Aug. 21 from historic Launch Complex (LC)-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Photo credit: SpaceX)

Pentagon launches secretive X-37B space plane for new mission

During the on-orbit mission, dubbed OTV-8, the Boeing-made spacecraft will conduct a wide range of tests and experiments focused on laser communication tech and quantum inertial sensors,…
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