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State of the Space Force 2025

As Trump envisions “our manifest destiny into the stars,” the Space Force is set to play a key role in America’s space ambitions.

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Lockheed's CEO reacts to Trump's acquisition overhaul orders

In talking with Wall Street, Jim Taiclet highlights how many of the regulations and statutes that have evolved over decades look poised to be "really scrutinized and reduced."

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SAIC wins $55M Space Development Agency integration contract

SAIC will take on systems engineering and related support work for SDA's emerging satellite network.

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Army picks Raytheon radar for Patriot system

The service used a special contracting authority to cut the selection timeline in half.

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Space Force's intelligence ‘marketplace’ gets funds to expand

Military units post requests to TacSRT’s webpage, and industry competes to answer them.

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Slingshot Aerospace secures Air Force contract to ‘fingerprint’ objects in space

The company is tasked with using artificial intelligence to analyze 4.5 million nightly observations from a global sensor network that tracks 14,500 satellites and other objects in space.

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NASA previews hydrosphere research support recompete

The space agency is searching for a small business that can help create and apply technologies for addressing issues related to Earth's natural resources.

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Space Force plans to put a multisatellite ‘carrier’ into orbit

Gravitics gets an up-to-$60 million contract to build a satellite that can spit out other satellites as needed.

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Why 3D printing in space is closer than you think

3D printing will help space pioneers make homes, tools and other stuff they need to colonize the Moon and Mars.

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Arlington Capital reveals its new defense tech company

The same investment firm that is selling BlueHalo to AeroVironment is now ready to showcase GRVTY, a specialist in geospatial and signals intelligence.

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Anduril wins $642M Marines counter-drone tech contract

The service branch wants to cover the entire kill chain and use signature disruption as its means for countering adversaries' unmanned aircraft.

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Growth and space leadership moves across the market

Our periodic summary of executive movement begins with one of the market's most notable private equity names adding to its braintrust.

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Epirus collects $250M in Series D capital to scale up production

The seven-year-old startup is pushing to further develop and make more of its Leonidas system, which works to fire lasers and other pulses at adversaries' drones.

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Give carmakers a shot at making weapons, deputy defense secretary nominee says

Stephen Feinberg’s testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee stressed the need for detailed program reviews, clean audits, and new blood in defense contracting.

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As space becomes more crowded, Space Force turns to AI

The newest service wants to understand where automation can augment—or even replace—humans in monitoring space for threats.

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Drones are the next chapter in US-India’s defense partnership

Trump-Modi meeting produces an agreement to expand industry cooperation, production in the Indo-Pacific.