The Pentagon has proposed a power upgrade for the newest Global Positioning System satellites, which have yet to be launched, that would allow the transmission to military receivers of signals that are eight times more powerful those sent by the current generation of satellites. These boosted signals would be powerful enough to burn through electronic jamming put up by an adversary. American troops would not get lost and satellite-guided smart bombs would still find their targets.
Pictures from sharp-eyed satellites, once the domain of the United States and Russia, are becoming so easy to obtain that the military may have to alter its strategies knowing adversaries with a minimum of know-how and money can be watching.
China is expected to have as many as 100 long-range nuclear missiles aimed at the United States by 2015, many of them on hard-to-find mobile launchers, according to a new CIA report.
The U.S. military is paying for the exclusive rights to commercial satellite imagery of Afghanistan even though its own satellites are thought to take far better pictures. This could serve two purposes: to provide an extra eye on Afghanistan, and to prevent anyone else from peeking at the war zone.
The Department of Defense has released a new report entitled 'Department of Defense Laser Master Plan'. The report argues that U.S. research into laser weapon research is critical for missile defense and satellite warfare.