Webinar: Space Force Budget

Space Force developing new cloud-based digital environment for training

As part of the Space Force’s effort to modernize its test and training infrastructure, the service is building a new digital range that will eventually connect disparate units and capabilities to allow for realistic, large-scale training. The capability — dubbed “Swarm” — is in nascent development, but envisioned as a multi-classification digital environment where guardians from various units can come together against simulated adversaries. Acco…

Webinar: Space Force Budget

Parsing the Space Force’s budget each year is a difficult task. The FY2026 budget is more complicated and more difficult to grasp due in part to the reconciliation process lawmakers used as a way to pass President Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” The post Webinar: Space Force Budget appeared first on SpaceNews.

What’s Up and Next For Secretive U.S. Space Force X-37B Space Plane?

U.S. President Trump’s “One, Big Beautiful Bill Act,” H.R. 1 includes $1 billion for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) X-37B military spacecraft program. That classified robotic space plane effort – also called the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) program – carried out its seventh mission, landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on March 7, […]