California-based startup Impulse Space has received a $34.5 million contract to demonstrate on-orbit maneuverability for the Space Force’s tactically responsive space program, the service’s acquisition arm announced Friday.
Under the agreement, Impulse will deliver two orbital maneuver vehicles (OMVs) for two missions — Victus Surgo and Victus Salo — that will test how prepositioned space assets could improve the Space Force’s ability to quickly address on-orbit threats, according to Space Systems Command (SSC).
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Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton took the helm of the Defense Information Systems Agency and Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Networks in a ceremony Friday.
Stanton, an Army officer, takes charge from Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, who headed both organizations the past three-and-a-half years and will retire after a 40-year career that started as an enlisted sailor in the Navy.
The budget includes funds for the Air Corps to acquire the new Airbus C295W aircraft, a move to improve Ireland’s airlift capabilities.
Boeing flew the Royal Thai Army’s first AH-6 helicopter for the first time, and their pilots will soon learn to fly the platform in the US.
A new timeline for the LMP programme has indicated it could be several years before the British Army begins to receive new mobility platforms.
Host L Todd Wood speaks with Col Rob Maness about General Stanley McCrystal’s use of weaponized social media against the American people, and his endorsement of Kamala Harris.
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Two military siblings had a memorable family reunion at 25,000 feet when an Air Force tanker pilot refueled her brother’s Navy EA-18G Growler attack jet.
During a mission earlier this year, Capt. Elizabeth “Sully” Brakefield, who flies KC-46A Pegasus tankers for the 344th Air Refueling Squadron at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas, refueled a Navy EA-18G Growler formation – one of which included her brother, Navy Lt. Lawson Brakefield.
Lawson Brakefield is a flight officer assigned to the Vikings of Electronic Attack Squadron 129 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced plans to deploy the Florida National Guard and Florida State Guard to ports affected by the ongoing International Longshoreman’s…
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The Pentagon will spend about $1.