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The House Appropriations defense subcommittee approved $49,500,000 to create a new program of record for commercial satellite communications within the Air Force.
The $49,500,000 for the new Air Force commercial satellite communications program of record was taken from an existing account that funds pathfinder projects between the Air Force and satcom firms.
The new Air Force program office for commercial satcom will have to design managed services that provide satcom capacity from different vendors through a single network and enable switching between vendors based on demand or disruption.
Congress added $600,000,000 in March 2018 to the Air Force budget for the procurement of two additional WGS satellites.
On 2018-05-25 the first Thai CubeSat was delivered to the Royal Thai Air Force.
ISIS and Thai satellite operator Thaicom delivered the first Thai CubeSat to the Royal Thai Air Force on 2018-05-25.
The 2017-10-01 conference did not establish a separate Space Corps and the Air Force was given an opportunity to show a greater commitment in space.
Both the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 restrict the Air Force’s ability to retire JSTARS and direct the service to continue funding procurement of a more modern aircraft.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center will create a portfolio architect team of 150 to 200 people to manage integration across stovepipes.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center plans to rely more on Boeing to provide mission assurance for WGS 11 and 12 under a commercial procurement model.
The 2016 legislation grants the military authorities to expedite procurement of next-generation satellites that the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center is using to buy five missile-warning satellites from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center tested hosting space weather sensors on Iridium Next commercial satellites and has 22 of 32 hosted payloads on orbit.
Lockheed Martin receives about $2,000,000,000 per year in contracts from the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center for GPS, communications, and missile warning satellites.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center will procure Wideband Global Satcom satellites WGS 11 and 12 from Boeing using a more commercial approach that allows Boeing to use components from its commercial satellite line.
The U.S. Air Force included $50,000,000 for Blackjack on its annual unfunded requirements list to Congress.
The Senate Armed Services Committee directs the U.S. Air Force and DARPA to work with the Missile Defense Agency to study whether the LEO constellation has the potential to meet MDA’s space-based requirements.
The U.S. Air Force plans to acquire a new intercontinental ballistic missile called the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent with Northrop Grumman and Boeing competing for the award.
The first-stage booster used on the SES-12 launch first flew on 2018-09-07 on the Air Force’s Orbital Test Vehicle 5 mission.
The final Delta 2 launch from Space Launch Complex 2 West at Vandenberg Air Force Base was planned for September 2019.
SpaceX launched the all-electric SES-12 telecom satellite on 2018-06-04 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base using a Falcon 9 rocket.