CLAIM · ASSESSED ~ · CONFIDENCE 0.65
The 4.5-year SBIR Phase 3 contract supports the Space Force's Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI) program.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because GPS jamming and spoofing are already misdirecting civil airliners and disrupting militaries, while co-orbital 'inspector' satellites and tested anti-satellite weapons put the navigation, timing and communications that banks, phones and power grids depend on at risk.
Part of the monitored dynamic Orbital Security Contest · VUCA INDEX 58/100
EVIDENCE CHAIN · 0
PROVENANCE
Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from spacenews.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 18.
Extracted JUL 16; approved JUL 18 at 0.65.
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