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Space Force signs $1.25 million software pact with Integrate
Aug 16, 2023
Software-integration startup Integrate won a $1.25 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to improve the Space Force's program-management software platform.
The recently announced $1.25 million Space Force contract tasks Integrate with providing the service with launch-mission management and coordination software.
John Conafay, CEO and co-founder of Integrate, said that the new contract will enable the Space Force to test the usefulness of Integrate’s mission-management platform as an enabler for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Tactically Responsive Space initiative and as a tool for coordinating the Space Systems Command’s programs.
The company's co-founders are both veterans: Conafay is a former specialist on the team supporting the Air Force’s Airborne Warning and Control System, while fellow co-founder and chief architect Paul Reesman was a four-tour Army Ranger.
https://militaryembedded.com/cyber/cybersecurity/space-force-signs-software-pact-with-integrate
US Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites
Aug 16, 2023
The United States Space Force has activated its first and only unit dedicated to targeting other nations' satellites and the ground stations that support them.
The 75th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron (ISRS) was activated on Aug. 11 at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado. This unit is part of Space Delta 7, an element of the U.S. Space Force tasked with providing intelligence on adversary space capabilities. It'll do things like analyze the capabilities of potential targets, locate and track these targets as well as participate in "target engagement," which presumably refers to destroying or disrupting adversary satellites, the ground stations that support them and transmissions sent between the two.
Lt. Col. Travis Anderson, who leads the squadron, said in a Space Force statement that the idea of a dedicated space targeting unit has been years in the making. "Today is a monumental time in the history of our service," Anderson said. "The idea of this unit began four years ago on paper and has probably been in the minds of several U.S. Air Force intelligence officers even longer."
The unit's patch was also unveiled at its activation ceremony, revealing it to be adorned with a grim reaper that has a delta shape for a nose. According to a Space Force statement, the delta represents "historic ties to the earliest days of the U.S. Air Force space community" as well as "all variations of space vehicles" that support the U.S. military.
Master Sgt. Desiree Cabrera, 75th ISRS operations superintendent, said the new unit will revolutionize the targeting capabilities of not just the Space Force, but also the entire U.S. military: "Not only are we standing up the sole targeting squadron in the U.S. Space Force, we are changing the way targeting is done across the joint community when it comes to space and electromagnetic warfare."
The 75th ISRS will also analyze adversary space capabilities including "counterspace force threats," according to the Space Force's statement. Counterspace forces refer to adversary systems aimed at preventing the U.S. from using its own satellites during a conflict.
These systems range from ground-based lasers that can blind optical sensors on satellites to devices that can jam signals or conduct cyberattacks to hack into adversary satellite systems.
These aren't limited to America's adversaries; the U.S. Space Force has conducted multiple training exercises to practice its own "live fire" satellite jamming and "simulated on-orbit combat training."
As militaries worldwide become increasingly reliant on space-based assets like navigation and communication satellites, early warning missile tracking systems and targeting sensors, the Space Force's and other nations' militaries will no doubt be increasing their abilities to monitor both defensive and offensive adversary capabilities in Earth's orbit.
https://www.space.com/space-force-1st-targeting-squadron
Vector Space Biosciences Files for Registration for Space Launch of Biological CubeSats
August 16, 2023
LA JOLLA, Calif.(BUSINESS WIRE)Vector Space Biosciences announces it has begun filing for licensing and registration for the design, development and launching of biological CubeSats, enabling biotechnology, pharmaceutical and advanced materials companies to generate unique and powerful datasets to advance the space industry. Customers are invited to pre-register now and during the Vector Space Biosciences talk at Oracle Health Conference on September 20th, 2023.
For humans to establish a lunar base or go to Mars, understanding how to protect and repair the human body during spaceflight is necessary. Spaceflight includes a variety of stressors to the human body, including microgravity and radiation in the form of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) and HZE particles, the high-energy nuclei component of GCRs. These stressors result in damage to the human body. Vector Space Biosciences, along with its technical and scientific collaborators including Oracle, NVIDIA, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL/DOE), Imperial College of London (ICL), University College London (UCL), Cal Poly Pomona, University of California San Diego (UCSD), IFO Rome, City of Hope, McGill University and others, will leverage advanced language modeling/AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques – including context-dependent hidden relationship detection between proteins, pathways, drug compounds and molecular sequences – to enable new hypotheses, insights, interpretations and discoveries to counteract these stressors.
Vector Space Biosciences maintains three divisions: a biosciences lab, AI, Language Modeling & Discovery lab, and hardware lab. Resulting products are designed to generate new discoveries and accelerate existing ones. This will include design and development of biological CubeSats launched from Vandenberg Space Force base into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), initially, followed by deep space missions, for the purpose of enabling biotechs, pharmas and advanced materials customers to conduct experiments in microgravity and radiation resulting in better efficacy for drug development. Data will be analyzed and interpreted using proprietary advanced language modeling/AI and visualizations that apply to a variety of industries, including biotechnology, pharmaceutical, advanced materials, and the financial markets.
Vector Space Biosciences is working with NASA BioSentinel program, NASA Flight Operations, Advacam, SpaceX Rideshare, Exolaunch, Cal Poly - Bronco Space, and Microsoft Azure Space to eventually enable multiple launches per week for a wide array of customers.
All biological experimental focuses are based on the deep knowledge domain expertise of our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), network of scientific labs and collaborators. Revenue streams result from packages and services offered by the Biological CubeSat Launch Platform (BCLP) along with datasets subscription services.
Customer-defined experiment designs focus on:
Biological:
Human Aging (Therapeutic applications: Cancer, Healthspan, Lifespan)
Multi-omics (Therapeutic applications: Precision Medicine)
Matrisome (Therapeutic applications: Precision Medicine)
Brain ECM (Therapeutic applications: Alzheimers, Parkinsons)
Mitochondirial Stress (Therapeutic applications: Precision Medicine)
Exosome (Therapeutic application: Cancer, Precision Medicine)
Cancer Metastasis (Therapeutic applications: Cancer Prevention)
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Drug Development:
Protein & drug compound formation and crystallization under microgravity.
Advanced Materials & Compounds:
Enabling leading-edge materials research that cannot be done anywhere on Earth.
Understanding the behavior of colloids (mixtures of particles dispersed in fluids), which are found in products such as creams and gels. The reduced fluid motion and lack of sedimentation in microgravity allow the observation of changes in product behavior in ways not possible on the ground. Results from such research provide an increased return to the bottom line by providing valuable insights into improving product development and shelf life to enhance customer experience, which has led to three granted patents in this area.
Dataset security and provenance are managed using the blockchain. Datasets represent a significant attack vector in AI today as datasets power all AI. If a correlation value changes in a dataset it could lead to loss of life for a pharmaceutical company developing new drug compounds or a loss in billions for a hedge fund reliant on accurate calculations. The VXV utility token is used to transact all dataset updates via the VXV wallet-enabled API.
About Vector Space Biosciences, Inc.
Vector Space Biosciences, Inc., (SBIO), parent company of Vectorspace AI (VXV), along with its scientific collaborators, design, develop and launch biological CubeSats for purpose of generating and interpreting unique datasets related to microgravity and radiation. This leads to the development of countermeasures against diseases associated to stressors connected to protecting and repairing the human body during spaceflight. This includes using a network of scientific data engineering pipelines for building targeted language models resulting in real-time datasets which power Artificial Intelligence (AI) operations in space biosciences, biotechnology and pharmaceutical development. Working with leading scientific labs in the areas of human aging, cancer, and nutrigenomics, our goal is to accelerate the process of new hypothesis generation and novel discoveries in space biosciences, including materials sciences in the area of nanotechnology and nanomedicines. Developing advanced large and small language modeling/AI technologies, our platform is capable of producing more than 100,000,000,000 different real-time datasets for the purpose of accelerating discoveries. Innovations in space biosciences result in products and services for all industries, including the financial markets, more importantly, new forms of precision medicine for all humankind. Please visit us at vectorspacebio.science for more information.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230816037245/en/Vector-Space-Biosciences-Files-for-Registration-for-Space-Launch-of-Biological-CubeSats
https://vectorspacebio.science/
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STARCOM Hosts First Space Force TACDEVCON
Aug 14, 2023
The future of space operations took a step forward, July 26-28, 2023, when Space Training and Readiness Command’s Space Delta 10 hosted the U.S. Space Force’s inaugural Tactics Development Conference (TACDEVCON) at the National Air and Space Intel Center, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Drawing a crowd of 240 attendees, the conference aimed to present the previous year's findings from the U.S. Space Force’s Mission Focused Working Groups (MFWGs) and Tactics Improvement Proposals (TIPs) to senior leadership.
U.S. Space Force Col. Jack Fulmer, Delta 10 commander, highlighted TACDEVCON's origins, as the conference evolved from the Air and Space Forces Weapons and Tactics Conference, narrowing its focus to specialized space-related mission areas.
“TACDEVCON provided us a dedicated forum for discussing the advancement of tactics, techniques, and procedures across the Space Force enterprise,” Fulmer said. “It's instrumental in synchronizing the efforts of the mission-focused groups and fosters a hub for groundbreaking ideas and strategic progression.”
Fulmer further elaborated on the uniqueness of the U.S. Space Force's challenges.
“We’re operating in a warfighting domain unlike any previous ones,” he said. “Our success hinges on adapting to these unique conditions.”
The first TACDEVCON resulted in various U.S. Space Force TIPs earmarked for further evaluation, testing, and validation. Also, seven MFWG topics received endorsement for resources and development and will be out-briefed at TACDEVCON 2024.
Emphasizing the conference's collaborative nature, STARCOM leaders described the event as an integrated Space Force initiative, underlining the significance of feedback from Guardians at all levels of the service.
U.S. Space Force Chief Master Sgt. Karmann-Monique Pogue, Delta 10's senior enlisted leader, described the conference as a catalyst for the Space Force, propelling its advancement.
“TACDEVCON channels frontline Guardian insights directly to our senior leadership,” Pogue said. “This streamlined communication and teamwork foster advancements in our tactics development process.”
She added, “The partnerships and connections that we forged here will guide us in addressing the challenges of today and tomorrow as we protect and defend the space domain.”
“During this conference, we united a cadre of Guardians to refine our tactics,” she said. “Collaborative efforts like TACDEVCON, both internally and with our joint, international, commercial, and civil partners, demonstrate our commitment to teamwork. It epitomizes how individual efforts dovetail into broader organizational goals.”
Highlighting Delta 10’s crucial involvement in facilitating TACDEVCON, Fulmer said, “Delta 10 stands as a cornerstone in navigating the intellectual challenges the Space Force faces, underscoring its pivotal role in the service’s trajectory.”
https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3493369/starcom-hosts-first-space-force-tacdevcon/