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The Air Force selected Vulcan Centaur in 2020, along with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, to launch national security satellites for the next five years.
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate announced plans in 2020 for the Cislunar Highway Patrol System to detect and track objects between geosynchronous orbit and the Moon.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act directed the Pentagon to name a senior acquisition executive with the title assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration.
Lawmakers asked the Department of the Air Force for an estimate of the cost to build a new U.S. Space Command headquarters at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville.
The Air Force has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade military space facilities in Colorado, including Space Command’s current headquarters at Peterson Space Force Base.
Space Systems Command was established on 2021-08-13 at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.
The U.S. Air Force selected United Launch Alliance as one of its NSSL Phase 2 providers in August 2020.
Hughes Network Systems, LLC holds one of several prime positions on a U.S. Air Force indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling of $950,000,000 to support the Advanced Battle Management System.
The late September Unity flight is for the Italian Air Force and is expected to produce about $2,000,000 in revenue for Virgin Galactic.
Hughes will deploy intelligent multi-transport technologies, including its Terminal Management Agent, to provide resilient networking for Air Force mission assurance.
AFWERX was created by the U.S. Air Force in 2017.
The U.S. Air Force began offering ‘Special’ SBIR topics starting with SBIR 18.2 and continuing with X20.3 that are faster, leaner, and open to a broader range of innovations.
The Air Force created AFWERX in 2017 to tap private sector investment and help bring nascent technologies relevant to national security to market.
Orbital ATK secured nearly $800,000,000 in 2018 in Air Force funding to support the OmegA project.
Larry James, a retired Air Force three-star general, has been deputy director of JPL since 2013.
The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $7,200,000,000 contract in 2018 with options to produce up to 22 GPS III Follow-on (GPS 3F) satellites.
Raytheon was selected by the Air Force to develop the Next Generation GPS Operational Control System (OCX) for GPS III, with an estimated cost of $6,700,000,000.
The Department of Defense requested $434,000,000 in its budget proposal for M-code-compatible GPS receiver cards for Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps platforms.
GPS III satellites are built by Lockheed Martin under a 2008 contract from the U.S. Air Force with navigation payloads supplied by L3Harris.
The 2021-07-26 Electron launch placed Monolith, a smallsat developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, into orbit.