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The Air Force reached an undefinitized contract action with Boeing calling for WGS-11 to have double the bandwidth and power of WGS-10 under a $605,000,000 deal.
A group of 43 former Defense Department, Air Force, and intelligence officials signed an open letter expressing strong support for establishing the U.S. Space Force.
The U.S. Air Force plans to launch 21 payloads on five missions this calendar year through RALI, including the STP-27RD flight and a later launch by Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne.
The Air Force delayed the RFP from its original 2019-03-29 release date to conduct further reviews and tweak some provisions.
The National Reconnaissance Office currently collaborates with the Air Force and other services and would need to collaborate with a created Space Force.
Mike Leahy served in the U.S. Air Force for 27 years and retired with the rank of colonel.
Blackjack will remain a joint DARPA and U.S. Air Force program while the Space Development Agency develops a larger proliferated LEO architecture for operational use.
The Air Force Association argues that establishing the Space Development Agency is unnecessary and redundant given the reforms of the Space and Missile Systems Center 2.0 effort.
The Air Force opposed efforts by Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike Griffin to establish a new agency to develop next-generation space systems.
The U.S. Air Force plans to spend more than $11,000,000,000 over the next five years to accelerate both the space and ground segments of next-gen OPIR.
The Air Force procured three additional Delta IV Heavy launches from United Launch Alliance to allow more time for competitors to mature propulsion systems for heavy rockets.
The Air Force intends a five-year commitment to buy approximately 25 launches from fiscal years 2022 to 2026 with one winner receiving 60 percent of the missions and the other receiving 40 percent.
Congress set a 2022-12-31 deadline for the Air Force to stop using the Atlas V which uses the RD-180 engine.
Twenty-eight lawmakers signed an 2019-04-12 letter to Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson urging the Air Force to keep the Phase 2 acquisition on schedule, limit Phase 2 missions to two providers, and refrain from weakening performance requirements.
The Air Force reviewed 1,500 comments received from vendors over three rounds of draft RFPs and one-on-one meetings.
The U.S. Air Force requested $1,400,000,000 for next-gen OPIR in 2020, including $817,000,000 for the development of Block 0 satellites.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith sent a 2019-03-28 letter to Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson asking the Air Force to delay the Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement and reconsider its plan to request bids 2019-04 and select two providers in spring 2020.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson wrote back on 2019-04-25 that the Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement must get underway immediately and that further delays would prevent the Air Force from fulfilling a congressional mandate to stop using rockets with the Russian RD-180 engine.
Adjutants general from several states raised concerns after Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson’s September memo suggested transferring Army and Air National Guard units performing space duties to the Reserves.
Relativity planned the first launch of Terran 1 for the very end of 2020 from a launch site the company plans to construct at Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.