:

Space

U.S. Space Force Picks Rocket Lab and True Anomaly for VICTUS HAZE

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, April 11th, 2024

SHARE:

U.S. Space Force Picks Rocket Lab and True Anomaly for VICTUS HAZE

Chief of Space Operations B. Chance Saltzman addresses this week's Space Symposium in Colorado Springs (U.S. Space Force Photo)

U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) said on April 11 that SSC's Space Safari program office, the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit, and the Space Force's SpaceWERX innovation arm have awarded contracts worth $32 million to Colorado-based Rocket Lab [RKLB] and $30 million to Colorado's True Anomaly for the VICTUS HAZE Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission to show how the United States could use rendezvous and proximity operations to counter "irresponsible" adversary behavior on orbit. Space Force has said that…

Congress

HASC’s Final FY ‘27 NDAA Expands Systems Eligible For Multi-Years, Includes LTAMDS, IBCS, ARRW

House defense authorizers added a measure to their version of the next defense policy bill that would expand the list of weapons platforms eligible for multi-year contracts, to include the […]

Congress

HASC Bill Would Allow Air Force To Buy More Than 267 F-15EXs

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill would allow the Air Force to buy more than 267 F-15EX fighters by Boeing [BA] and would extend the […]

Budget

Defense Bill Tries To Block Foreign Shipbuilding, Adds $1 Billion For Second DDG

The final version of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal year 2027 defense authorization bill included two amendments pushed by Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) that restrict procuring Navy warships […]

Congress

Replacement Munitions May Not Be One-for-One; May Include New Weapons Chemistries, Wittman Says

As the Pentagon looks to refill inventories of weapons used in Iran and elsewhere, replacements may not be one for one but instead mark a new portfolio mix, according to […]