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The Air Force would move $93,200,000 from fiscal year 2019 RDT&E program lines including $20,000,000 from Space Control Technology, $37,900,000 from Future Advanced Weapon Analysis and Programs, $25,300,000 from B-52 squadrons, and $10,000,000 from the Space and Missile Test and Evaluation Center.
The Air Force requested $1,400,000,000 for research, development, testing and evaluation (RDT&E) and $200,000,000 for procurement for next-gen OPIR in its fiscal year 2020 budget request.
The $160,000,000 reprogramming request is smaller than an earlier $632,000,000 reprogramming that Air Force officials identified as needed to deliver next-gen OPIR by 2025.
The Air Force submitted a reprogramming request on 2019-07-19 that would shift $93,200,000 from programs funded in fiscal year 2019 and $67,500,000 from programs funded in fiscal year 2018 to next-gen OPIR.
The Air Force is seeking congressional approval to transfer $160,000,000 from other accounts to fund the next-generation Overhead Persistent Infrared system, or next-gen OPIR.
The Air Force would move an additional $67,500,000 from fiscal year 2018 program lines including $52,000,000 from Operationally Responsive Space, $10,000,000 from the Space Based Infrared System High EMD, and $5,500,000 from classified programs.
The Air Force designed next-gen OPIR to use Section 804 authorities to accelerate satellite development toward a 2023 launch timeline.
House appropriators questioned the Air Force strategy for next-gen OPIR and cut the Department of Defense’s request by $201,000,000 in their report accompanying the 2020 defense markup.
Up until late 2017, the Air Force was planning a new system to replace SBIRS that would have been ready to launch by 2029.
Under the previous RSGS effort, DARPA had agreed to arrange the launch through the Air Force in 2021.
The Air Force awarded Boeing and Northrop Grumman contracts to develop preliminary GBSD designs under the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction phase.
The Falcon 9 first stage that supported the 2019-07-25 launch first flew on the previous Dragon cargo launch on 2019-05-04 and landed at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The U.S. Air Force announced in 2014 that 14 companies qualified for the Hosted Payload Solutions program.
AFWERX is a U.S. Air Force program launched in 2017 that serves as a dual-purpose technology accelerator.
Viasat has the opportunity to work with the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Defense to further develop, deploy, and demonstrate its Hybrid Adaptive Network concept with potential to provide future communications services to the government for multi-domain operations.
The SDA will host a tabletop exercise later in July 2019 that Air Force officials have been invited to attend.
On 2019-07-17, United Launch Alliance delayed the Delta 4 launch of an Air Force GPS satellite originally scheduled for 2019-07-25 until at least 2019-08-22.
On 2019-07-11, United Launch Alliance rescheduled the Atlas 5 launch of the Air Force Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite planned for 2019-07-17 until no earlier than 2019-08-08.
The Senate version of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act does not allow the Department of Defense to create a service immediately and lays out a one-year transition plan during which Air Force Space Command would be rebranded as the U.S. Space Force.
Mark Esper supports creating a separate space service now and compared the need for a space service to the creation of an independent air force in 1947.