Tag: Defense Innovation Unit
Two firms get a prototype shot at cheap geostationary surveillance
The Pentagon picked Northrop Grumman and True Anomaly to build low-cost prototypes for watching geosynchronous orbit.
Pentagon shops for space-threat AI that answers in five seconds
The Defense Innovation Unit wants AI that fuses satellite, radar and classified data into a five-second picture of space threats.
Magnetic-field navigation aces a four-hour GPS-free Pacific flight
An Embraer jet flew a four-hour Pacific route with GPS off while quantum magnetometers steered it by Earth's magnetic field,…
Pentagon pays space suppliers to scale output ahead of a fleet boom
DIU contracts and Defense Production Act cash push satellite suppliers toward mass output as the Space Force plans fleets in…
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