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The U.S. Air Force created the Space Enterprise Consortium in 2017 to attract startups and commercial companies from the space industry to bid on military projects.
On 2021-01-13, Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett selected Redstone Arsenal as the future location of U.S. Space Command headquarters one day before stepping down from her post.
The Department of the Air Force anticipated making a final decision on the permanent location of U.S. Space Command headquarters in spring 2023, pending the results of the required environmental impact analysis.
The Air Force revealed the shortlist of U.S. Space Command candidate locations on 2020-11-19.
The Air Force launched the U.S. Space Command basing selection process in May with an open bidding process that received bids from 24 states.
Aerojet Rocketdyne originally developed the AR1 with U.S. Air Force funding as a possible replacement for the Russian RD-180 engine.
In 2016 the U.S. Air Force awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a contract worth more than $800,000,000 for development, testing, and certification of the AR1.
The Department of the Air Force anticipates making a final decision for the location of the U.S. Space Command Headquarters in spring 2023 pending the results of the required environmental impact analysis.
NextGen Federal Systems has been awarded the Global Synthetic Weather Radar (GSWR) Research to Operations (R2O) contract by the US Air Force.
The updated GSWR capability will be integrated into the Air Force Weather Virtual Private Cloud.
NextGen will contribute significantly to the Air Force Weather mission through the GSWR program.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space delivered its 3,000th Miniaturized Airborne GPS Receiver (MAGR) 2000-S24 system to the U.S. Air Force.
The DTI AN/TPQ-18 Transmitter Upgrade was performed under contract FA8823-18-C-0013, which includes installation at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
The E400 delivered to the Air National Guard was equipped with a live-streaming thermal and RGB video payload.
Diversified Technologies, Inc. built a new transmitter for the U.S. Air Force Western Range AN/TPQ-18 radar facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $13,300,000,000 contract in September to develop the GBSD over the next seven years.
The 2017 characterization of SBIRS as vulnerable led the Air Force to accelerate development of the Next-Gen OPIR constellation.
NASA’s Landsat-9 mission is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 launch vehicle in September 2021.
The U.S. Space Development Agency awarded Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) a nearly $155,000,000 contract for launch services from Vandenberg Air Force Base for the Agency’s Tranche 0 Transport and Tracking Layer space vehicles.
GomSpace signed a second FACSAT-2 contract to support advanced science and technology activities that will enhance the satellite capabilities of the Colombian Air Force.