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SBIRS GEO-4 launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 2018-01-20 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 rocket.
The U.S. Air Force canceled procurement of SBIRS 7 and SBIRS 8 in 2018 and transitioned to the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program.
One Maxar award is a U.S. Air Force multi-year project worth more than $70,000,000 to develop a platform to test the use of automated intelligence and machine learning in military operations.
The committee directs the Department of Defense to brief lawmakers by 2019-09-15 on the Air Force’s plan to leverage commercial investments in responsive launch capabilities and integrate them into DoD space operations.
Maxar Technologies received multiple contracts in the first quarter of 2019 from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Special Operations Command, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency with a total value of more than $95,000,000.
The committee directs the Air Force to provide a briefing to the committee by 2019-09-30 on timelines and costs for procuring GPS III satellites.
Boeing has secured geostationary communications satellite orders 2019 for a Viasat ViaSat-3 satellite focused on the Asia-Pacific region and for the U.S. Air Force’s WGS-11 satellite.
The U.S. Air Force plans to select two launch providers for the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 competition in 2020.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $792,000,000 Launch Service Agreement contract in October to complete development of OmegA and the required launch sites.
The House Appropriations Committee’s report accompanying its 2020 defense funding bill suggested the Air Force should manage all satellite communications systems.
In fiscal year 2018 the Air Force requested an additional $344,000,000 for next-gen OPIR above what had been budgeted but only $112,000,000 was appropriated, leaving an unfunded balance of $232,000,000.
The Air Force required hundreds of millions of dollars above its 2019-10-01 budget to accelerate the schedule of the next-gen OPIR overhead persistent infrared constellation.
The Air Force originally envisioned achieving initial launch capability for next-gen OPIR in 2023 but revised that schedule to 2025 due to cost constraints.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center issued a request for information titled "Modular Enterprise Spacecraft Bus Procurement" with responses due 2019-04-03.
The 2019-10-01 Air Force budget and planned future budgets fully support a 2025 initial launch capability deadline for next-gen OPIR.
The Air Force requested $632,000,000 to be reprogrammed into its 2019 budget to fill funding shortfalls for next-gen OPIR.
The Air Force requested $1,400,000,000 for next-gen OPIR in fiscal year 2020.
Next-gen OPIR was $632,000,000 short of the funding the Air Force said it needed in the year to meet an initial launch capability of 2025 for the first satellite.
Raytheon’s contract with the Air Force requires delivery of a complete OCX system by June 2021.
The Air Force projected next-gen OPIR funding of $2,000,000,000 in 2021, $2,200,000,000 in 2022, $2,600,000,000 in 2023, and $3,000,000,000 in 2024 to speed development and production.