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Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson’s estimate for establishing a new service and a space command was $13,000,000,000 over five years.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center is reorganizing into SMC 2.0 and intends to use authorities from Section 804 of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act to accelerate protected tactical satcom programs.
The AEHF-4 satellite launched on 2018-10-17 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Two years prior to the report, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded prototype terminal contracts of $39,000,000 to Raytheon, $38,000,000 to L3, and $33,000,000 to Viasat for field demonstrations scheduled through 2020.
Air Force briefing charts presented at the Milsatcom USA conference show a plan to award a contract for the Protected Tactical Enterprise System by the end of 2018 or early 2019 and to have the ground systems developed by 2023.
As of 2018-11-17 SpaceX had no major upgrades planned for Falcon 9, with only minor tweaks to improve reliability contingent on NASA and U.S. Air Force support.
SpaceX’s remaining 2018 missions, all using Falcon 9 rockets, include Spaceflight Inc.’s SmallSat Express, the U.S. Air Force’s first GPS 3 satellite, NASA’s CRS-16 resupply mission to the International Space Station, and the final 10 Iridium Next satellites for Iridium.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson estimated setup costs for the new space branch and unified command at $13,000,000,000 over five years.
Deborah Lee James' recent tenure as Secretary of the Air Force provides her with unique insight into the needs of the United States military.
Deborah Lee James served as Secretary of the Air Force from 2013 to 2017.
Congress directed U.S. Air Force Space Command to assume responsibility for the procurement of commercial satellite communications services for the Department of Defense no later than December 2018.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 ordered the Defense Information Systems Agency to transfer responsibility for buying commercial bandwidth to Air Force Space Command.
The U.S. Air Force completed the Wideband Communications Services Analysis of Alternatives in summer 2018.
The Air Force is developing a new military constellation and a secure tactical satcom architecture for military forces operating in environments where adversaries may jam satellite signals and interfere with ground networks.
Congress inserted funds for WGS-11 and WGS-12 in the Fiscal Year 2018 defense budget and directed the Air Force to submit a plan for providing future wideband communications.
Viasat received a Low Rate Initial Production order of 1,000 National Security Agency-certified Mini Crypto devices from the U.S. Air Force.
Casino is a project that could be placed in the Space Development Agency’s portfolio, creating uncertainty about how much the Air Force would invest.
Lockheed Martin printed the Remote Interface Unit, an aluminum box that houses avionic circuits, for the sixth U.S. Air Force Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite slated to launch in 2019.
Space was previously not part of the Air Force's identity, according to Loverro.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center oversees $7,000,000,000 a year in space program funding.