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The Space and Missile Systems Center issued a solicitation for SpEC management bids on 2020-03-18.
The U.S. Space Force’s official birthday is 2020-12-20, the day President Donald Trump signed legislation creating the Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $511,000,000 contract for two GPS 3F satellites.
The Space and Missile Systems Center purchased GPS 3F space vehicles 13 and 14 after the satellite passed a critical design review earlier 2020.
United Launch Alliance’s next launch after NROL-44 is the STP-3 mission for the U.S. Space Force, scheduled for first quarter 2021 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Altamira Technologies a prototype project contract valued at $8,500,000 for the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data Processing Applications Provider.
The U.S. Space Force is buying two GPS satellites from Lockheed Martin for $511,000,000.
The U.S. Space Force was established in December 2019.
When the U.S. Space Force was signed into law on 2019-12-20, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond identified plans to rename the principal Air Force bases that house space units to be space bases.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is working with the U.S. Space Force on plans to create a national space intelligence center focused on technical intelligence to defend space systems from anti-satellite weapons developed by China and Russia.
Congress established the U.S. Space Force in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.
Todd Harrison, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, views the 2021 defense bill as providing continuity for the U.S. Space Force.
SpaceWERX will operate out of the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) campus in Los Angeles.
The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Production Corps achieved Operational Acceptance of GPS Military-Code Early Use (MCEU) on 2020-11-18.
The U.S. Space Force awarded the contract for MCEU to Lockheed Martin in 2017.
Aevum's first launch will be a U.S. Space Force mission called Agile Small Launch Operational Normalizer, or ASLON-45.
The Space Corps bill written by Mike Rogers and Jim Cooper was defeated at the time but was resurrected in the 2020 NDAA when Congress established the U.S. Space Force.
The Fiscal Year 2021 NDAA prohibits transferring Air Force bases to the U.S. Space Force without briefing congressional defense committees and obtaining committee approval.
SBIRS GEO-5 and SBIRS GEO-6 are slated to join the U.S. Space Force’s constellation of missile-warning satellites equipped with powerful scanning and staring infrared surveillance sensors.
The U.S. Space Force sees a huge opportunity to buy commercially developed technologies and services.