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The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded ASTRA, Raytheon Technologies, and General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group other transaction authority agreements with a combined value of $309,000,000.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office is now part of the U.S. Space Force and was created to develop technologies on accelerated schedules.
The Space and Missile Systems Center plans to work closely with the Space Development Agency on the space transport layer and space tracking layer and to support the SDA’s ground segment and launch needs.
The Space Development Agency must be transferred from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to the U.S. Space Force by 2022-10-01 or earlier.
Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett supports consolidating space programs under the U.S. Space Force and is pushing for the Space Development Agency to be realigned sooner than 2022.
Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear argued that the SDA needs at least two years to demonstrate its business model before being merged with the U.S. Space Force.
Congress directed the Department of Defense to transfer the Space Development Agency to the U.S. Space Force by October 2022.
The U.S. Space Force procurement organization Space and Missile Systems Center disclosed the six selected small-launch vendors on 2020-06-16.
The Space and Missile Systems Center began a National Security Launch Architecture study in 2019 to gain deeper insight into the industry’s capabilities and planned investments.
A RAND Corporation study commissioned by the Air Force recommended that the Space and Missile Systems Center consider supporting more than two launch providers in Phase 2 due to a risk of insufficient certified rockets when Phase 2 starts in 2022.
The SASC markup directs the U.S. Space Force to work with research institutions to establish critical infrastructure and develop the future workforce.
The Department of the Air Force, on behalf of the U.S. Space Force, plans to announce the two winners of the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 launch services procurement.
The U.S. Space Force is reviewing transfer applications and expects that approximately 6,000 of the 8,500 applicants will be selected for transfer.
Transfers from non-space career fields to the U.S. Space Force that require boarding and selection will not occur until February 2021.
The U.S. Space Force plans to deploy five Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) missile-warning satellites by 2029.
The Pentagon completed the report required by the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act on how reserve components would support the U.S. Space Force but had not yet sent the report to Congress.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, enacted on 2019-12-20, created the U.S. Space Force but did not direct the establishment of a Space National Guard.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act required the Pentagon to submit a report with recommendations on how reserve components would support the U.S. Space Force.
The task force consists of about 150 personnel and eight aircraft under the command of the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida.
The U.S. Space Force is not planning to send humans into space for national security purposes in the near future.