Lockheed Martin says that it has completed another Space Radar review—on-schedule—and is headed toward system requirements review. A company release dated June 27 says the Air Force, Intelligence Community, and DOD participated in the integrated baseline review at Lockheed’s Denver facility that culminated in mid-April—yes, April. Meanwhile, the Senate Committee on Select Intelligence thinks it would be a good idea to terminate the Space Radar.
The stand-up of the Space Force, and now its early overhaul and the creation of a new Space Systems Command, are all about resilience: Ensuring that space capabilities, which the whole country relies on, could survive a concerted attack by a near-peer adversary. As part of that drive, a new…