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The Department of the Air Force’s derived formula includes acquiring ground and software-intensive systems in smaller, more manageable pieces that can be delivered faster.
Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight is a dedicated research flight for the Italian Air Force under a contract signed in 2019.
AFWERX is the U.S. Air Force innovation arm that established the STRATFI program in 2021.
X-Bow Systems received a $60,000,000 U.S. Air Force Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) agreement.
SLC-6 was originally built in the 1960s to support the U.S. Air Force’s never-flown Manned Orbital Laboratory program.
Hydrosat received a $1,200,000 U.S. Air Force award to investigate national security applications for thermal infrared data earlier in the year.
Ursa Major won a U.S. Air Force $3,600,000 contract last year to support development and flight-qualification of the Hadley engine.
The Small Launch and Targets Division Office at Kirtland Air Force Base awarded an $11,500,000 Task Order to Astra Space, Inc. of Alameda, California for the Space Test Program STP-S29B launch service.
In 2022, L3Harris and industry partners completed upgrades on a phased array radar at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
The Department of the Air Force completed an analysis nearly two years ago to justify funding in the 2024 defense budget for at least 20 new programs.
Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall submitted a legislative proposal to Congress on 2023-04-12 to allow selected Pentagon programs to start before final appropriations are passed.
Orbital Sidekick has government contracts to supply hyperspectral data to the United States Department of Defense through partnerships with In-Q-Tel, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Space Force.
Lamborn has no updates on the Department of the Air Force's decisions regarding the location of U.S. Space Command.
Orbital Sidekick has secured government contracts to supply hyperspectral data to the United States Department of Defense through partnerships with In-Q-Tel, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Space Force.
GomSpace provided the FACSAT-2 (6U) satellite for the Colombian Air Force on Transporter-7 using a GomSpace bus.
FACSAT-2, dubbed “Chiribiquete”, is a 6U Earth observation satellite built by GomSpace and was deployed using an EXOpod Nova for the Colombian Air Force.
Under EELV Phase 1A in 2019 the Air Force awarded three missions to ULA at an average of $147,200,000 per launch and three missions to SpaceX at an average of $99,000,000 per launch.
The Air Force directed in 2016 that the Pentagon stop using launch vehicles powered by Russian engines and allowed DoD Atlas 5 contracts only through 2022.
From October 2018 through December 2020 the Air Force paid Blue Origin $255,000,000 for New Glenn development costs in exchange for access to engineering data under a terminated agreement originally valued at $500,000,000.
SatixFy Communications completed a contracted demonstration with OneWeb Technologies and the Air Force Research Lab under the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) initiative.