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CULVER CITY, Calif., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The
National Security Space Association (NSSA) was honored to host a celebration of the life, legacy and career of the late General Thomas S. Moorman with a virtual memorial service on April 14, 2021. The service was attended by several hundred nationwide, including several former Air Force Secretaries, Air Force Chiefs and Vice Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Space Command Commanders, and Intelligence Community Senior Executives, as well as a wide range of current and former executives within the space industry. The two-hour multimedia memorial tribute to the tremendously influential career and life of General Tom Moorman was co-produced with
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Theresa Hitchens on April 21, 2021 at 10:55 AM
Gen. David (DT) Thompson
WASHINGTON: The Space Force is working to expand acquisition of commercial space services from satellite communications to include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data and analysis, officials say.
“Comms, data relay, remote sensing, and even ISR and some other things [these] capabilities are increasingly available in the commercial market,” Space Force deputy Lt. Gen. DT Thompson told the 2021 C4ISR Conference today.
Thus, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) head Lt. Gen. JT Thompson (no relation to DT) and Clare Grason, who runs the Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO) now “are looking to expand their responsibilities beyond just commercial SATCOM to the availability and use and procurement and provisioning of other commercial services,” he said.
PUBLISHED 3:17 PM ET Mar. 14, 2021 PUBLISHED 3:17 PM EDT Mar. 14, 2021
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TITUSVILLE, Fla. Bob Graveline loves telling stories of his Cold War history so we can learn from our history.
What You Need To Know
Bob Graveline worked on the Snark missile program in 1950s
The missile was designed to strike Russia with a 6,000-mile range
One of the few remaining Snark missiles is on display at Air Force Space & Missile Museum
The 94-year-old Titusville man s career predates the dawn of the space program, and his work was key in the U.S. s showdown with Russia during the Cold War.
Now, Graveline is sharing his story at the Air Force Space & Missile Museum in Cape Canaveral, which is growing in popularity.
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I Asked the Head of Space Force What the Agency Has Done for Me Lately
Gen. John Raymond has put up with plenty of mockery. But, he says, there’s nothing funny about protecting U.S. interests from Russian and Chinese anti-satellite technology.
Monday, March 8th, 2021
kara swisher
I’m Kara Swisher, and you’re listening to Sway. If you enlist in the American military today you can be a sailor in the Navy, a soldier in the Army, an airman in the Air Force, or you can be a guardian in the Space Force.
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Today space is essential not only to our way of life. It’s absolutely critical to the modern way of war.