Most researchers argue that violence risk assessments are inadequate for assessing threats of violence, which raises the question: how should a threat assessment (TA) be conducted? To begin to understand available frameworks for assessing threats, a systematic review of TA research literature was ...
The threat from China and Russia’s space-based SIGINT satellites Both China and Russia have invested in new signals intelligence, or SIGINT, satellites to eavesdrop on Western communications and specifically for naval reconnaissance. Matthew Mowthorpe examines what is known about those satellites.Monday...
not appropriations, the House and Senate defense appropriators seems to be on the same page. Many House Republicans, however, are demanding that total federal spending be reduced to FY2022 levels
billion euro ($1.08 billion) investment with the initial 50 million euros ($53.92 million) annual budget being released in 2023. In 2023, the Space Development Agency had issued 29 contracts cumulatively exceeding $37 million and the same effort in 2022 involved 46 contract awards worth $3.7...
DNI Worldwide Threat Assessment, 2017 USC Astronautics on LinkedIn – USC Astronauts – NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (left) at the 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Orlando, Fla. (January 5, 2011) and Appollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin (right) at ASTE event (December 13...
“Like when the trucks were in Ottawa [Canada freedom convoys protest movement of 2022]. We were talking about it [in class]. And then I arrived with a very firm idea of "Well, they’re pissing everybody off [the truckers], […] it’s really problematic, you really just have to ge...
The MDA said in FY 2022 it plans to "complete development of the operational hit assessment software code, continue developing kill assessment algorithms and threat models, and finalise integration of the SKA operational interface in order to add the SKA capability to the operational all-domain [...
(D-TN) started the effort that led to creation of the Space Force was concern that space acquisition takes too long to keep up with the threat. The FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act, which created the Space Force, also estasblished this new position to fix acquisition. Calvelli ...
But a successful deflection would depend on a variety of factors, including when the threat was detected — the farther out, the better — and the asteroid's composition. ESA's Hera probe will orbit the Didymos system and study both asteroids in detail with 11 high-tech cameras and ot...
Space debris poses an increasingly significant threat to the sustainability of space activities. As the volume of objects in Earth’s orbit continues to exponentially increase [1], innovative methods for Active Space Debris Removal (ASDR) are now more important than ever. These can be performed ...