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On 2022-04-04, the Department of the Air Force identified six Space Force bases as candidate locations for the headquarters of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Training and Readiness Command.
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded SpaceX a $102,000,000 contract to study ways the military could use SpaceX launch vehicles to transport cargo and crews point to point on Earth.
The proposed Space Force budget for fiscal year 2023 includes $1,000,000,000 that was transferred from the Air Force to the Space Force’s military personnel account.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall stated that adversary anti-satellite capabilities from countries like Russia and China require the Department of Defense to invest in advanced space systems.
Terran Orbital expects to deliver a satellite with six electro-optical payloads to support weather observations for the Air Force Research Laboratory in 2022.
The U.S. Air Force selected BAE Systems, with support from FlexRadio, to provide software defined radios for the Airborne High Frequency Radio Modernization (AHFRM) program.
Viasat is working with the Air Force Research Laboratory under a seven-year $50,800,000 contract to develop concepts for hybrid networks of commercial satcom and government-owned satellites.
The $12,000,000 funding for Orbit Fab’s contract includes $6,000,000 from the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force and $6,000,000 from Orbit Fab’s private investors.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Orbit Fab a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research contract last year to flight-qualify the RAFTI port.
The U.S. Air Force, through the AFVentures Strategic Funding Increase program, is supporting development of Tomorrow.io's first four satellites with a $19,300,000 contract.
STSS traces its heritage to an April 2002 U.S. Air Force contract awarded to Northrop Grumman to develop, test, launch, and operate two Low Flight Demonstration System space vehicles and a ground segment at the Missile Defense Space Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The U.S. Air Force started the PTS program in 2018 to develop secure satcom services for government agencies and military forces to reduce dependence on Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellites.
MDA, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force launched the two STSS demonstration space vehicles on 2009-09-25 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida aboard a single Delta II rocket.
The Department of the Air Force’s architecture office, led by Preston Dunlap, oversees nearly $70,000,000,000 of research, development and acquisition programs.
The Air Force created the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) in 2017 to attract commercial space startups and small businesses.
The Air Force technology accelerator AFWERX was created in 2017 to help commercialize technologies and serve national security needs.
The 2022 defense spending bill requests clarification of the roles and responsibilities of senior civilian and uniformed leaders with space responsibilities and asks for an explanation of what space acquisition units do, including the Space Warfighting Analysis Center, Space Development Agency, Space Rapid Capabilities Office, and space programs in the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.
Space Micro, owned by Voyager Space, won a separate U.S. Air Force SBIR contract in January to develop an optical terminal to connect satellites with military aircraft.
The omnibus bill directs the Secretary of the Air Force, in consultation with the Chief of Space Operations, to provide an acquisition strategy for tactically responsive space capabilities within 90 days of enactment.
Chicago-based SpiderOak won two U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research contracts in 2021 for OrbitSecure, an off-the-shelf product to enhance satellite and constellation cybersecurity.