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Business Wire
a day ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Space Force Vice Chief and White House's Alexei Bulazel Among Experts Speaking at 16
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gen. Michael A. Guetlein, the Vice Chief of Space Operations, U.S. Space Force, and Alexei Bulazel, Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for Cyber, White House, are confirmed to speak at the 16th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit, being held September 9-12, 2025 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Both speakers will address topics related to the event's theme: Cyber and AI Frontiers: Strategies for a Secure and Smarter Government. Designed to address the nation's pressing cyber needs, the four-day event includes over 50 panel discussions, breakout sessions, and fireside chats that explore topics such as quantum computing, the Salt Typhoon attack, Zero Trust, and AI. Share 'Cyber threats are growing and evolving as technology does. Understanding our adversaries and the risks they pose is critical to protecting our nation and allies. We are pleased that General Guetlein and Mr. Bulazel will share their unique insights with summit attendees,' explained Thomas K. Billington, CEO and Founder, Billington CyberSecurity, a leading cyber education company for executives. Gen. Guetlein will speak at a fireside titled: The Intersection of Space and Cyber in which he will discuss the growing interconnectivity between cyber and space and how the U.S. Space Force is looking to protect it. Bulazel will lay out the Trump Administration's key cyber strategic objectives and highlight the Administration's policy implementation plans during a fireside entitled Cyber Priorities of the White House National Security Council. Designed to address the nation's pressing cyber needs, the four-day event includes over 50 panel discussions, breakout sessions, and fireside chats that explore topics such as quantum computing, the Salt Typhoon attack, legacy systems, cloud attack methodologies, advanced cyber hacker insights, and Zero Trust. These topics are part of this year's tracks which include: Application Security Artificial Intelligence Cloud Security Data Protection Foundational Security/Security by Design Identity Management Industrial Control Systems/Operational Technology/IOT Future of Cyber Threat/Cyber Threat Intelligence Risk Management and Compliance Security Operations Consulting Supply Chain Considerations Other summit headliners include: Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, DoD Leonel Garciga, Chief Information Officer, US Army Katherine 'Katie' Arrington, Performing the Duties of Chief Information Officer, DOD Richard Horne, CEO, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), United Kingdom Rajiv Gupta, Head, Canadian Cyber Security Centre Lt. Gen. Paul T. Stanton, Commander of the Joint Force, Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network and Director, DISA (Invited Pending Agency Approva l) Lt. Gen. Michelle McGuinness, Australia's National Cyber Security Coordinator Jennifer Link, CISO, CIA James Kemp Jennings Roche, CISO, DoD Cyber Crime Center Adarryl Roberts, CIO, DLA Dr. Kelly Fletcher, CIO, Department of State (Invited Pending Agency Approval) Jane Rathbun, CIO, U.S. Department of the Navy Presented by a variety of sponsors, including Lead Underwriters: Amazon Web Services, CISCO, and Leidos, the summit will also include a host of receptions to help attendees meet and engage with other conference attendees and speakers and has over 150 cyber-focused vendor booths where attendees can see demos and learn about innovative technologies. Learn more or register at Attendee tickets for government and military are complimentary. Credentialed working media are free and encouraged to register in advance to cover the event at About Billington CyberSecurity Founded in 2010, Billington CyberSecurity is the leading cyber education company for executives, hosting high-caliber summits and workshops that explore key cyber issues that advance the cybersecurity of the U.S. government, its allied partners, and critical infrastructure. These events convene senior most government officials and industry partners, highlighted by its signature conference—the annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit held each fall—which attracts more than 3,500 attendees and 250 speakers.
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Chinese satellites complete groundbreaking mission 22,000 miles above Earth
China's space program took a major stride this past week as two of its satellites seemingly docked together in what could have been the country's first high-altitude attempt at refueling a satellite while in orbit. The Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites appeared to dock with one another last week more than 20,000 miles above the planet in geosynchronous orbit, in which a satellite's orbital period matches the pace of the Earth's rotation, according to news outlet Ars Technica. Us Warfighters Are Losing A Massive Force Multiplier Advantage As China Advances In Space While Chinese officials have not recently released any updates about the two satellites, civilian satellite trackers showed Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 moving closer together before becoming indistinguishable from one another, Ars Technica reported. These two satellites docking in geosynchronous orbit could indicate that China has the potential to disable another country's satellite in space, Ars Technica reported. China Launches Tianwen-2 Space Probe To Collect Samples From Asteroid Near Mars Read On The Fox News App However, the U.S. Space Force has similarly been interested in orbital refueling as military satellites often have limited fuel supplies. The military branch is slated to perform its first-ever refueling of a U.S. military asset in orbit as early as next summer. American officials may have taken note of the apparent docking by China last week, as two of the Space Force's inspector satellites appeared to move closer to Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 following the maneuver, Ars Technica reported. Geosynchronous orbit, which is situated at an altitude of around 22,236 miles, is popular among military and commercial satellites as it means they have a fixed view of the planet and can provide military forces with information like early warnings of missile attacks, according to Ars Technica. China Accuses Us Of 'Turning Space Into A Warzone' With Trump's Golden Dome Missile Defense Project In April, Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman described China's explosive advances in space as "mind-boggling" and warned the U.S. is on a path to losing its dominance in orbit. Testifying before the bipartisan U.S.-China Commission, Saltzman said China is "heavily investing" in both ground-based and space-based weapons designed to disable enemy satellites, including kinetic strikes, radio-frequency jamming and directed energy weapons. China also increased its military spending by 7% this year, stockpiling anti-satellite missiles and claiming to possess directed energy weapons that use concentrated energy beams to jam satellite signals. The U.S. Space Force and NASA did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for article source: Chinese satellites complete groundbreaking mission 22,000 miles above Earth
Axios
09-07-2025
- Business
- Axios
Boeing nabs $2.8 billion nuke communications contract
The U.S. Space Force tapped Boeing to build at least two satellites to be used for nuclear weapons coordination. Why it matters: The company bested Northrop Grumman for the nearly $3 billion Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications (ESS) contract. State of play: The ESS satellites will succeed the service's Advanced Extremely High Frequency constellation, a key part of command-and-control networks that ensure the U.S. can use its nukes if and when the time comes. Boeing is expected to deliver the first spacecraft by 2031. The verdict has been years in the making, with preliminary work dating back to 2020. What they're saying: "The U.S. needs a strategic national security architecture that works without fail, with the highest level of protection and capability," Kay Sears, the vice president and general manager of Boeing's space, intelligence and weapons division, said in a statement. "We designed an innovative system to provide guaranteed communication to address an evolving threat environment in space." The company's announcement touted a "highly protected" waveform as well as classified technologies developed alongside the Defense Department. Between the lines: Its bid was built on prior experience with Wideband Global SATCOM-11 and -12 spacecraft as well as the O3b mPOWER system.
CNBC
04-07-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Investing in Space: One big beautiful windfall
And one of the big windfall winners of U.S. President Donald Trump's tax and spending megabill could end up being… unexpectedly, the U.S. Space Force. There's a lot that the administration's put on the line for the tax and spending package, reputationally and politically, to secure Trump's legacy. And that's before factoring in the vast amount of overtime senators have been putting in throughout a 'vote-a-rama' marathon that Republicans want to bring to the finish line by Independence Day. After a final heated debate on Thursday — including a record-breaking almost-nine-hour speech from Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries — the package cleared the House of Representatives on Thursday, setting the stage for Trump to later ink the bill into law. If the reconciliation package is enshrined according to earlier versions, it and budgetary measures could be set to deliver the U.S. Space Force a 30% year-on-year increase in funding to just under a whopping $40 billion in 2026. That's no small amount of change, even relative to the broader $1 trillion defense strategy that the administration's officials are trying to push through. And it adds up. Some $25 billion was slated for Trump's mammoth multi-layered missile defense system, Golden Dome. Crunching some numbers, that's a seventh of the total $175 billion cost the White House administration has billed for the project — whose overall expense and viability lawmakers and analysts have repeatedly questioned — in a short stretch. It is, nevertheless, worth remembering other estimates put the final bill closer to $540 billion. These funds will make an "initial investment" in Golden Dome focused on procuring interceptors like the existing Patriots, developing new space-based interceptor options, and putting a down payment on advanced sensors and command and control systems, according to a U.S. Department of Defense briefing on June 26. The money will go toward "vital space-based capabilities" alongside "space control and resilient combat credible architectures," all part of a broader bid to achieve Washington's "space superiority," a senior defense official said last week. That's ultimately a familiar playbook for the White House, which was for years locked in an exhaustive space race with the Soviet Union before clinching victory through the first manned Moon landing — the only difference is the pivot from space exploration to defense among the stars. The U.S. Space Force's chief, General Chance Saltzman, warned of the "mind-boggling" pace at which Washington's frenemy China was putting military capabilities in space, all the way back in October. Whatever its faults, for defense and space companies, Golden Dome's been providing a rare beacon of investment hope amid budget cuts at space-geared government contractor NASA. Moreover, there's the boon in the project's extensive execution and long funding scope — and that's before getting into the possibility that sunken-cost concerns might coerce future administrations to see Golden Dome through, even if it doesn't wrap up by the end of Trump's second term. And it's not just space by way of defense. Trump's made no secret of his ambitions – previously joyously shared with then ally, now critic Elon Musk — to put people on Mars, and the bill also provides for exploring the red planet. That relationship remains on the rocks. When I began writing on Tuesday, heated words were still flying — not the least of which from Musk, who this week doubled down on previous criticism of the megabill to liken it to a "DEBT SLAVERY bill with the biggest debt ceiling increase in history" before calling for a new political party that "actually cares about the people." The tech billionaire was widely seen as a close ally of Musk until their public feud last month that inevitably brought into question the fate of SpaceX's existing and future government contracts. As ever, it's not over until it's over — let's see where things land for space. As a heads up, the newsletter's skipping next week while yours truly jetpacks on assignment, but will be back in action on July 17.
Business Wire
30-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Momentus Wins Contract in Highly Competitive U.S. Space Force SpaceWERX Sustained Space Maneuver Challenge
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. commercial space company offering satellite buses and in-space infrastructure services, today announced it has signed a $1.86M Direct to Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force. The award supports the in-space flight demonstration of a novel, low-cost multi-spectral sensor suite for Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO), scheduled for early 2026. 'This contract marks a major milestone in advancing cost-effective, autonomous in-space operations,' said John Rood, Chief Executive Officer of Momentus. Under this contract, Momentus will demonstrate an internally developed RPO system equipped with optical, infrared, and lidar sensors. The technology integrates machine vision algorithms and advanced data fusion used to guide the safe and autonomous approach of a spacecraft to an uncharacterized object in low Earth orbit. 'This contract marks a major milestone in advancing cost-effective, autonomous in-space operations,' said John Rood, Chief Executive Officer of Momentus. 'We're honored to support the U.S. Space Force and Department of the Air Force in developing the advanced capabilities needed to support their plans for dynamic space operations such as orbital servicing and refueling of satellites, assembly of structures in space, and debris mitigation.' The flight demonstration will take place aboard SpaceX's Transporter-16 rideshare mission scheduled for launch no earlier than February 2026, where Momentus will host the RPO payload on its Vigoride orbital service vehicle. The demonstration will be conducted alongside a group of commercial and Department of Defense customers. The project stems from the SpaceWERX Sustained Space Maneuver Challenge launched in 2024, where Momentus' proposal was selected out of numerous challengers for a Direct to Phase II award following a competitive evaluation. Contract negotiations were concluded in early June 2025. About Momentus Inc. Momentus is a U.S. commercial space company that provides satellite buses and in-space infrastructure services, including in-space transportation, hosted payloads, and orbital delivery solutions for microsatellites and CubeSats. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains certain statements which may constitute 'forward-looking statements' for purposes of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the expected filing of the Company's Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and its management team's expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, and are not guarantees of future performance. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of Momentus' control. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not limited to risks and uncertainties included under the heading 'Risk Factors' in the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the Company on April 9, 2025, as such factors may be updated from time to time in our other filings with the Commission, accessible on the Commission's website at and the Investor Relations section of our website at Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and, except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
