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The Department of the Air Force is working to complete a congressionally mandated report proposing changes to space acquisitions.
The Senate Armed Services Committee markup of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act allows voluntary transfer of personnel to the Space Force, expanding authority beyond last year’s NDAA that only allowed members of Air Force Space Command to move over.
A report titled "Alternative Acquisition System for the United States Space Force" was sent to congressional committees on 2020-05-20 and the Air Force notified committees the next day that the version they received was not the final version.
The SASC bill requires the Secretary of the Air Force to develop technologies and systems to enhance Phase 3 National Security Space Launch requirements.
The 2020-10-01 SASC markup did not include provisions on Space Force acquisition reforms that the 2020 NDAA directed Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett to submit.
The Air Force awarded Launch Service Agreement funding in October 2018 to Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman.
The Department of the Air Force, on behalf of the U.S. Space Force, plans to announce the two winners of the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 launch services procurement.
A group of 28 lawmakers from Colorado, Alabama, and other states with ULA manufacturing and launch operations sent a 2020-05-29 letter to Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett and Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond urging them not to add a third provider in Phase 2.
The RAND study recommended the Air Force provide tailored support to a third launch provider until at least 2023 to ensure sufficient launch suppliers with certified vehicles.
The 2020-05-29 letter argues that the Air Force and the Government Accountability Office have indicated the national security launch manifest cannot support three or more launch providers.
A Phase 2 competition provision states that only companies that win a Phase 2 contract will continue to receive Air Force funding for launch vehicle development and construction of launch pads.
Space Micro received an Air Force contract last year to develop a secure optical terminal for Air Force missions.
The U.S. Air Force compressed the Next-Gen OPIR program schedule by 42 months and plans to launch the first satellite by 2025.
In late 2019 the Air Force selected Raytheon to develop an open-architecture operating system for future Next-Gen OPIR ground stations, but a contract had not yet been awarded.
CBO estimated that transferring 1,500 personnel from existing Air National Guard and Army National Guard units to a new Space National Guard would generate about $100,000,000 in annual operations and support costs and about $20,000,000 in onetime construction costs for additional facilities.
Detachment 3, led by Lt. Col. Michael Thompson, oversees training for rescue missions with about 30 full-time staff, augmented by Air Force combat search and rescue units.
When Congress established the Space Force on 2019-12-20, it renamed the Colorado Springs-based Air Force Space Command the U.S. Space Force.
Roccor developed the antenna boom under a 2017 Air Force Research Laboratory Small Business Innovation Research contract.
Roccor is working with BluFlux to complete environmental testing of a helical L-band antenna for XVI, an Air Force Research Laboratory program to demonstrate communications relay with a Link 16 terminal on a small satellite.
Roccor plans to continue evolving its Link 16 antenna design to create a production-ready model under a $3,000,000 Small Business Innovation Research contract awarded after Air Force Space Pitch Day in November.