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The Canadian government decided in 2015 to proceed with the MEOSAR project to provide search-and-rescue repeaters for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Global Positioning System satellites.
MDA was selected by the Canadian government to design, build, and deliver 10 search-and-rescue repeaters for the Medium Earth Orbit Search and Rescue (MEOSAR) system to be hosted on the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS satellites.
NROL-91 is planned to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
NROL-68 and NROL-70 are planned to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The 2019-05-08 Congressional Budget Office report estimated that standing up an independent Space Force under the Air Force, a U.S. Space Command and a Space Development Agency would increase Department of Defense annual costs by $1,100,000,000 to $1,900,000,000 and incur one-time costs of $1,800,000,000 to $4,700,000,000.
The Air Force determined United Launch Alliance was the only certified launch service provider capable of providing launch services for NROL-68, NROL-70, and NROL-91.
The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act reassigned the principal space adviser role from Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson to Patrick Shanahan and directed him to study ways to reorganize the Department of Defense space enterprise.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded United Launch Alliance a $149,000,000 contract modification for a Delta 4 Heavy launch of the National Reconnaissance Office mission NROL-68.
Firefly Aerospace expected to take possession of a launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, formerly used by the Delta II, in June or July 2019.
The Air Force delivered the first Space C2 software apps to operators at Vandenberg and Schriever in March.
CBO estimates that a new service within the Department of the Air Force would require 4,100 to 6,800 personnel and increase annual costs by $820,000,000 to $1,300,000,000.
The $11,000,000 for JMS in the Air Force’s fiscal year 2020 budget request will be removed in the following budget.
Atlas Space Operations received an Air Force contract to prototype another electronically steered antenna for military missions in 2019.
The Air Force’s budget request for fiscal year 2020 included $11,000,000 for JMS.
By law the Air Force is allowed to purchase Atlas V launches until 2022-12-31 despite a Congressional mandate to stop using the vehicle because its main stage is powered by the Russian RD-180 engine.
The Air Force intends to depend on newly designed launch vehicles to perform the more complex missions required in Phase 2.
The Air Force plans to competitively award contracts in 2020 to two domestic launch service providers under the Phase 2 LSP.
Relativity is working with the U.S. Air Force to develop launch facilities for Terran 1 at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 16.
The Air Force is developing a Protected Tactical Waveform that will run over a ground control system being developed by Boeing as part of the Protected Tactical System effort.
Congress added $600,000,000 to the Air Force’s 2018 budget for the procurement of two additional WGS satellites that the Air Force had not planned to buy.