Tag: USA

Planet unveils Pelican Earth-imaging constellation (Debra Werner, Space News)

Planet unveiled “very high resolution” Pelican Earth-imaging satellites and revealed plans to bring synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) into its Planet Fusion Monitoring data stream. Planet made...

Rocket Lab to launch NASA smallsat using SBIR award (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Rocket Lab will launch a NASA technology demonstration satellite under an unconventional arrangement as the agency works on a more standardized approach for launching...

Astra prepares for next launch after identifying cause of August launch failure (Jeff Foust, Space News)

Small launch vehicle company Astra has identified the cause of an August launch failure and says it will make its next attempt as soon...

Russia invites US to lift all restrictions from foreign missions in reciprocal move (TASS)

Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov at a meeting with the visiting US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland invited the...

Russia, US share many promising spheres for cooperation — Russian prime minister (TASS)

Russia and the United States might cooperate successfully in various spheres, for instance, participate in joint projects to protect the environment and fight against...

Russia finds it important to create conditions for economic partnership with US, says PM (TASS)

The Russian authorities believe that it is important to create favorable conditions for improving cooperation between Russia and the United States in trade, economy...

Russia does not accept US military presence in Central Asia — senior diplomat (TASS)

At talks with US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland on Tuesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov pointed to the unacceptability of a...

Russian deputy foreign minister and US diplomat Nuland discuss strategic stability (TASS)

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that during the talks with US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, the sides addressed...

US Army Is Scrutinizing Itself, Must Change Swiftly to Face China, Secretary Says (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The U.S. Army is analyzing its force structure, infrastructure, modernization programs, and readiness in a bid to figure out how it can best focus...

Pentagon’s Top Science Official Adds to Tech-Breakthrough Wishlist (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

When Heidi Shyu was nominated to be defense undersecretary for research and engineering, the longtime Army acquisition executive set out to trim the long list of...

4 C’s Drive Biden Administration’s First Naval Strategic Guidance (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The “Four C’s: China, Culture, Climate Change, and COVID” are the naval services’ “most pressing” challenges, Carlos Del Toro writes in his first strategic...

First platoon of short-range air defense systems get workout ahead of bigger events (Jen Judson, Defense News)

The first platoon of the U.S. Army’s Maneuver-Short-Range Air Defense System arrived in Europe five months ago, and the first unit to receive the Stryker-based systems...

US Army weighs taking future Project Convergence exercises abroad (Jen Judson, Defense News)

The Army is about to kick off a major part of its U.S.-based experimentation event known as Project Convergence, and service leaders are considering growing the annual...

This Compass Call squadron is coming home after 20 years of hacking and jamming enemies in CENTCOM (Rachel S. Cohen, Defense News)

After almost 20 years as a shadowy player in the War on Terror, the Air Force’s squadron of EC-130H electronic warfare planes is leaving...

SOSA consortium unveils first standards for military sensor technologies (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

Almost four years after its first meeting, a consortium of government and industry representatives has released its first set of standards for open architecture...

Army banks on new unit to help transform its data handling (Mark Pomerlau, Defense News)

The Army’s Multi-Domain Task Force will be integral in helping shape the service’s approach to managing data and developing data links, a senior service...