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Space Force leaders are sharpening their rhetorical swords regarding the service's need to build space warfighting chops.

Even just "mapping the supply chain is hard stuff," said Reza Nikfarjam, deputy director of the Credit Program at the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital (OSC).

Even just "mapping the supply chain is hard stuff," said Reza Nikfarjam, deputy director of the Credit Program at the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital (OSC).

Officials from the National Reconnaissance Office and Missile Defense Agency pulled out of the Satellite 2025/GovMilSpace conference, despite it being in downtown Washington.

ULA CEO Tory Bruno separately told reporters his firm identified a "manufacturing" error as the cause of an anomaly in its latest certification launch.

The idea behind the commercial reviews is to find potential alternatives for "getting us out of one-off, billion-dollar systems into a proliferated architecture," said Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy.

However, several industry sources said that their companies have not been blocked by NRO from taking pictures over Ukraine.

SDA originally had hoped to begin launching the Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking Layer constellations for its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture stationed in low Earth orbit in September 2024.

Representatives of US remote sensing firms remain extremely nervous about possible roadblocks to future plans that require either new licenses or license modifications due to the personnel downsizing resulting from the efforts of Elon Musk's DOGE team to chop the size of the federal bureaucracy. 

AST, Kayhan, LeoLabs team to demo capability to reduce Space Force satellite tracking times