The Pentagon says it wants Silicon Valley speed with defense-grade reliability. It also wants lower costs and more competition. What it’s learning is that you can’t just flip a procurement model on ...

A $1.5 trillion defense budget is a prudent and reasonable re-leveling of defense investment in historical proportion of GDP, ...

As the Space Force enters 2026 amid escalating threats from China and Russia, it faces a pivotal year as it transitions to ...

Reentry of an unarmed U.S. Air Force Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile following a test launch. Credit: U.S. Army photo by Amy Hansen HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The Trump administration’s fiscal ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University, already known as the Cradle of Astronauts, is now establishing itself among the academic leaders for the U.S. Space Force with research and initiatives ...

American warfighters need jam-proof communications, and the Space Force is planning to spend hundreds of millions to ensure they have them. As part of that effort, the service established the ...

The Space Development Agency has 19 transport satellites in orbit and will launch another 126 spacecraft over the next year. (Northrop Grumman) The Space Force’s fiscal 2026 budget request proposes ...

Orange County-based aerospace firms Terran Orbital Corp. and Turion Space are among a dozen companies selected by the U.S. Space Force to compete for spacecraft contracts under a $237 million program.

A generation ago, when former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin promoted the mantra of a “faster, better, cheaper” approach to the agency’s science missions, critics often joked that NASA could only pick ...

The Space Force has been working closely with private investment firms to get a leg up on emerging technologies. The result is a “pool” of companies with products the service wants, a senior defense ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The Space Force’s main acquisition arm is looking to see which of its major programs could be scaled back or replaced with a commercial alternative. “Nobody got a pass.