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Appropriators in the fiscal year 2019 omnibus funding bill directed the U.S. Air Force to submit a plan within 90 days for producing and launching WGS-11 and WGS-12.
The U.S. Air Force asked Boeing to propose alternative options to provide WGS satellites and cover the launches for $600,000,000.
A proposed compromise was for the Air Force to pay Boeing to build one WGS satellite and handle the launch for less than $600,000,000.
The Air Force 45th Space Wing will support the WGS-10 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 37.
When the U.S. Air Force acquires satellites it allocates launch funds separately in its budget.
Blue Origin received a $500,000,000 Launch Service Agreement award from the U.S. Air Force to help build launch facilities, including at Vandenberg.
The Air Force asked vendors for feedback on the 2019-02-21 draft solicitation and planned to release a final request for proposals by the end of March.
The Air Force intends to select the two Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement winners in 2020.
The Pentagon asked Congress to grant the secretary of defense special authorities over five years to move resources into the Space Force, similar to authorities used in 1947 to form the Air Force.
The Pentagon requested congressional authorization and $72,000,000 in 2020 to establish a Space Force headquarters in the Pentagon under the Department of the Air Force.
The Pentagon plans to transfer thousands of service members, primarily from the Air Force, into the Space Force starting in 2021.
DoD’s approach to organizing the Space Force closely follows the approach used in 1947 to create the Air Force.
The Air Force wants to be able to acquire and use low-cost internet access from LEO constellations as soon as possible.
The Air Force is prepared to issue contracts to LEO broadband companies to test services as soon as they start launching spacecraft.
The Air Force experimentation office was stood up in May 2016 specifically to take commercial products and test them in field experiments.
The Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio awarded SpaceX a $28,000,000 contract in December to test over the next three years different ways the military might use Starlink broadband services.
The Air Force experimentation office is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory and works directly with Air Force and Department of Defense leaders at the Pentagon.
In fiscal year 2019 the Air Force experimentation office received $216 million, most of which Congress requires to be spent on experiments and prototypes.
The Air Force manages large space programs that require checks and balances, quality control, and engineering discipline.
The Air Force considers it unrealistic for the Department of Defense to build its own LEO broadband systems that match the scale of commercial megaconstellations.