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The Air Force requested $1,200,000,000 to procure four launches in fiscal year 2020 and $432,000,000 to continue funding next-generation vehicles under the Launch Service Agreement program, and the House Appropriations Committee fully funded the request.
SpaceX sued the Air Force in 2013 over the Air Force’s decision to award United Launch Alliance a bulk purchase of launches instead of allowing competitive bids.
Under the latest agreement with the Air Force, Raytheon must deliver a complete OCX system by June 2021.
The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $462,000,000 contract in December to upgrade the Operational Control System to allow operation of the GPS III constellation until 2025.
The U.S. Air Force has limited funding allocated for development testing and seeks to collaborate with other government agencies, including NASA, to pool resources for development testing.
The Air Force has spent about $5,500,000,000 on OCX over the past decade.
OCX setbacks required the Air Force to fund upgrades to the existing Operational Control System made by Lockheed Martin at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Air Force requested $380,000,000 for the OCX program in fiscal year 2020 and projects the program will cost an additional $1,100,000,000 through 2024.
United Launch Alliance received a U.S. Air Force contract modification on 2019-05-09 for a Delta IV Heavy launch of the NROL-68 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.
The House Appropriations Committee included a legislative provision requiring the Space Development Agency and the Air Force to lay out a plan to develop a unified and integrated space architecture.
The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force were tasked in fiscal year 2019 with developing an integrated architecture and acquisition strategy for wideband and narrowband military satellite communications.
This proposed change would be the first major change to the Air Force personnel system since the service was created in 1947.
Iceye launched its second radar satellite, Iceye-X2, in December on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The reprogramming included $44,900,000 taken from EELV Launch Capability accounts that fund payments directly to United Launch Alliance to support Air Force requirements.
The reprogrammed funds were taken from personnel and procurement accounts, including $209,700,000 from the Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, which has been renamed National Security Space Launch.
Senate appropriators in July 2018 proposed a $300,000,000 cut from the Air Force EELV budget on the basis that the launch money for STP-4 was early to need.
The reprogramming included $164,800,000 taken from the Air Force account designated for EELV launch services.
The Air Force awarded SpaceX a $130,000,000 contract in June for a Falcon Heavy launch of the AFSPC-52 spacecraft in 2020.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded United Launch Alliance a $149,000,000 contract modification on 2019-05-09 for a Delta 4 Heavy launch of the National Reconnaissance Office mission NROL-68.
An Air Force memo documents negotiated savings of approximately $27,500,000 per launch for the three Delta 4 Heavy missions.