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The Space Force hopes to choose a developer next June for its nascent Digital Bloodhound program, aimed at improving detection of cyber threats to space ground systems, according to senior Space Systems Command officials.

Brig. Gen. Tim Sejba, SSC’s program executive officer for space domain awareness and combat power (SSC/SZ), said on Thursday that the project is a reflection of the fact that cyber defense is a requirement across the military’s entire space architecture, both in orbit and on the ground.

For that reason, he added, “defensive cyber operations and capabilities” are part of the SSC/SZ portfolio “so that we really do protect and defend the entire mission and the architecture against threats from both.”

The two-day conference was co-sponsored by AFCEA’s Los Angeles branch, the National Defense Industrial Association’s Greater Los Angeles division, the Southern California Aerospace Professional Representative, and the Air and Space Force’s Schriever Chapter.

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