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IARPA Announces Winners of its 3-D Mapping Challenge
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, has selected its winners from its crowd-sourced Multi-View Stereo 3-D Mapping Challenge—a contest to see who could best convert satellite photos into 3-D models to create more accurate maps.

A Big Role for Small Satellite Terminals

DARPA Creates Space Robotics Consortium
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has kicked off the Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations (CONFERS) to tackle the lack of clear, widely accepted technical and safety standards for responsible performance of on-orbit activities involving commercial satellites.
Boeing Awarded Space-Based Surveillance Funds
The Boeing Co., El Segundo, California, has been awarded a $23,477,634 modification P00015 to previously awarded contract FA8819-15-C-0007 for Space Based Space Surv
L-3 Awarded Common Data Link Contract
L-3 Communications Corp., Communication Systems West, Salt Lake City, Utah, was awarded a $499,987,656 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for common data link and sate
U.S. Air Force Inherits Powerful New Space Telescope from DARPA
The U.S. Air Force on Tuesday inherited a next-generation telescope capable of detecting and tracking space debris with unprecedented fidelity. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, transferred to the U.S. Air Force Space Command its space surveillance telescope (SST), a revolutionary device designed to track objects in Earth’s orbit.

For Army C3, Better Also Must Be Simpler

China, U.S. Collaborating on Air Traffic Research
NASA Greenlights New Space Exploration Technologies
Adaptive space robotics, 3-D printing and autonomous communication systems are among the topics of 21 innovative research and development proposals selected by NASA to enable future solar system missions.
U.S. Air Force Modifies Space-Based Infrared System Contract
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, California, has been awarded a $45,047,020 modification (P00083) to previously awarded contract FA8810-13-C