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Pentagon Budget Pushes Space Force Deeper Into Real-Time Tracking From Orbit
Key Takeaways
- The Pentagon’s fiscal 2027 budget request allocates more than $8 billion for space-based moving target indicator systems.
- Ground moving target indication is further along and is being developed with the National Reconnaissance Office in low Earth orbit.
- Air moving target indication is technically harder, but the Space Force has already awarded base contracts to nine vendors under a system-of-systems approach.
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DT Editorial Team··via spacenews.com