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The HASC bill supports the Air Force’s plan to select two providers in NSSL Phase 2 while accelerating the timeline to begin investing in technologies for Phase 3.
The bill increases development funding for the National Security Space Launch program from the Air Force request of $560,900,000 to $710,900,000.
Relativity Space obtained a right of entry for Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 16 in January 2019.
Relativity Space executed a Right of Entry agreement with the United States Air Force 30th Space Wing on 2020-06-24 to develop rocket launch facilities at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Relativity Space received a right of entry from the U.S. Air Force for a site called B-330 at Vandenberg to use for missions to polar and sun-synchronous orbits.
York Space Systems and Metropolitan State University of Denver won a U.S. Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer study contract announced 2020-06-23 to investigate ways to reduce the cost and speed delivery of high-quality satellite imagery.
The 2021 NDAA bill supports the Air Force’s plan to select two winners in the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 procurement during the summer of 2020.
The 2021 NDAA bill requires the Secretary of the Air Force to establish a program to develop technologies and systems to enhance Phase 3 National Security Space Launch requirements and enable advances in launch capability associated with insertion of national security payloads into relevant classes of orbits.
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 directs the Air Force to fund up to $250,000,000 in research and development projects to help launch providers prepare to meet future national security launch requirements.
The 2021 NDAA bill authorizes $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2021 for the Air Force partnerships program.
The Senate Armed Services Committee requires the Air Force, after Phase 2 providers are selected, to fund three-year research and development partnerships with companies to help them prepare to meet the requirements of the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 competition in 2024.
York Space Systems and Metropolitan State University of Denver were awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer study contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory on 2020-06-23.
The 2021 NDAA bill sets a ceiling of $250,000,000 for Air Force partnerships through 2027.
Carbice has won more than $3,000,000 in Small Business Innovation Research grants from the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and the National Science Foundation.
The Air Force Research Laboratory will launch in 2021 a small satellite equipped with a Link 16 military communications terminal that will operate in low Earth orbit.
Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett supports consolidating space programs under the U.S. Space Force and is pushing for the Space Development Agency to be realigned sooner than 2022.
Xplore received a U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research contract in April to study how to establish a positioning, navigation, and timing system for cislunar space.
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act stated that the Air Force could support companies that do not win Phase 2 by investing in programs to help them prepare for Phase 3 five years later.
The 2020-03-01 Perseverance rover mission is scheduled to launch 2020-07-20 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
A RAND Corporation study commissioned by the Air Force recommended that the Space and Missile Systems Center consider supporting more than two launch providers in Phase 2 due to a risk of insufficient certified rockets when Phase 2 starts in 2022.