Business

Small Firm Tapped to Make Threat Detectors for Satellites

The Space Force’s $32M contract seems to be the kind of award the Pentagon has recently extolled.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Threats

The Air & Space Brief: New social-media limits, drone warfare, SpaceX’s 100th landing

  • Tara Copp
Threats

Click ‘Like’, Get Punished Under Pentagon’s New Anti-Extremism Policy

First update since 2012 adds rules for social-media behavior.

  • Tara Copp
Threats

The Air & Space Brief: China’s spaceplane; Satellite attack response; AI targeting failures

  • Tara Copp
Threats

The Air & Space Brief: No invasion ‘red lines.’ Overhyped hypersonics? And a DIA ‘slow boil…’

  • Tara Copp
Threats

The Air & Space Brief: Spacewar training; Posture review; Inside the airlift; UFO office; And more...

  • Bradley Peniston
Science & Tech

Space Force Has a Plan for Training Its Troops. Now It Must Figure Out What They Need to Learn

The newest service can’t train the same way its sisters do. It needs a new simulated environment.

  • Patrick Tucker
Threats

Pentagon Scrambles to Defend ‘Juicy Targets’ After Rivals’ Space Tests

U.S. Space Force is taking Russia’s destruction of its own satellite as a warning.

  • Tara Copp
Threats

The Air & Space Brief: Brace for higher weapons costs; Russian ASAT hurls space debris; Hypersonic aircraft prototype

  • Tara Copp
Threats

The Air & Space Brief: China’s space debris satellite has a wingman; Strategic deterrence model, kaput?; and more...

  • Tara Copp
Threats

The Air & Space Brief: China’s hypersonic did ‘circle the globe’; Female fighter pilots make history: “We fly for her.”

  • Tara Copp
Threats

The Air & Space Brief: Fighter pilots & cancer; space “superhighway”; Bezos’ space station B&B

  • Tara Copp
Science & Tech

The Military is Preparing for a ‘Space Superhighway,’ Complete with Pit Stops

Those hubs would do more than refuel spaceships; they are seen as key to staying ahead of China.

  • Tara Copp
Threats

The Air & Space Brief: HKIA hijacking update; Airmen face consequences of vaccine refusal; Space Force on China launch

  • Tara Copp
Science & Tech

The Air & Space Brief: New B-52 engines will ‘never come off’; ‘Continuous vetting’ aims to expand to social media; Shatner launch delayed...

  • Tara Copp
Threats

Active-Duty Suicide Rate Hit Record High in 2020

The rate among soldiers was nearly double that of sailors, DOD’s annual suicide report found.

  • Caitlin M. Kenney
Science & Tech

The Air & Space Brief: New hypersonics missile developments, Shatner treks to space, Russia beats Cruise to ISS movie

  • Tara Copp
Threats

The Air & Space Brief: New B-21 public debut details, Taiwan ADIZ incursions by China, Why the Space Force uniform opens diagonally

  • Tara Copp
Ideas

AFA Conference Wire: Keeping AI Safe From Bad Data

News and notes from the 2021 Air Force Association's Air, Space & Cyber conference.

  • Defense One Staff
Threats

Racial Division, Troops’ Role in Protests Has Hurt Minority Recruiting, Air Force Says

Black interest in military service plummeted after the George Floyd protests. Can the Pentagon undo the damage?

  • Tara Copp
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