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The administration proposed creating a Space Force headquarters in the Pentagon led by a four-star chief of staff, a four-star vice chief of staff, and an undersecretary of the Air Force for space.
Col. Robert Bongiovi stated that the Air Force intends to work with only two launch providers over the five-year period of Phase 2 and plans to reintroduce competition in Phase 3 starting in 2025.
The House bill requires the Air Force to provide Congress a detailed accounting of how much money each Phase 2 winner received in government subsidies no later than 45 days after the Air Force selects its two launch providers.
The Air Force has been working with the administration to oppose the House’s Section 1601 provisions.
The House bill establishing a U.S. Space Corps within the Department of the Air Force was approved as part of the HASC NDAA package.
The Air Force objects to the $500,000,000 certification and infrastructure fund and warned it could expose the service to having to make up to $1,500,000,000 available to companies that received Launch Service Agreement funding if they do not win Phase 2 contracts.
The House bill directs the Department of Defense and the Air Force to provide written notification of which companies won Phase 2 contracts at least 10 days before the selection is made public, including identification of selected providers, evaluation criteria used, total costs to the Air Force, and how investments in launch service providers were accounted for in the evaluation of offers.
The Air Force planned in 2020 to select two Phase 2 providers to perform approximately 25 to 34 national security space launches from 2022 to 2026.
The Aerospace Corporation was founded in 1960 to help the U.S. Air Force develop the first missiles, rockets, and satellites.
The House bill requires the Department of Defense and the Air Force to implement a plan from the 2017 NDAA regarding U.S. use of allied launch vehicles, including identifying satellites appropriate for allied launch vehicles and determining policy, certification requirements, and estimated cost and schedule to certify allied launch vehicles.
United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman have aligned themselves with the Air Force position on Phase 2, SpaceX supports retaining the $500,000,000 fund, and Blue Origin supports the provision to allow more competitors in Phase 2 after 29 launches.
The U.S. Air Force allocated $7,000,000 of a $20,000,000 budget for commercial weather data as of January.
The Senate rejected the Department of Defense’s plan in its version of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act to establish a space service headquarters led by two four-star generals and an undersecretary of the Air Force for space.
The three teams designed FORGE prototypes under cost-sharing Other Transaction Authority contracts managed by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium.
Section 1601 would require the Air Force to provide up to $500,000,000 to launch companies that either win a Phase 2 contract after fiscal year 2022 or win a Phase 2 contract but are not part of a Launch Service Agreement to meet national security-unique infrastructure and certification requirements for a Phase 2 contract.
The Trump administration supports in principle the House Armed Services Committee language to establish a U.S. Space Corps as a sixth branch of the Armed Forces within the Department of the Air Force while requesting specific changes.
The Air Force requested Congress shift $632,000,000 from future budgets into the 2019 budget to support next-gen OPIR timelines.
The president announced on 2019-05-21 his intent to nominate former U.S. Ambassador Barbara Barrett as secretary of the Air Force.
The Air Force plans to start launching next-gen OPIR satellites by 2025.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman an $82,000,000 contract to develop a next-generation ground system to provide telemetry, cybersecurity, and control for EPS and EPS-R payloads.