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The Department of the Air Force plans to deliver a final version of the report to Congress soon.
The Air Force sent the report to congressional committees on 2020-05-21 and notified them that the version they had received was not final.
Congress directed Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act to propose alternative acquisition processes to speed development and lower the cost of space systems.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act directed the Secretary of the Air Force to establish a separate Senior Acquisition Executive for space equal to the current Senior Acquisition Executive for the Air Force.
Barry Behnken served a 20-year Air Force career that included work as a National Reconnaissance Office program director.
The experiment flew to orbit on May 17 aboard the U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane.
The Air Force awarded Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman $2,300,000,000 in Launch Service Agreement funding in October 2018 to be spread over six years to help defray the cost of rocket certification for national security launch and of building launch pads on East and West coast ranges.
The Air Force plans to terminate the October 2018 Launch Service Agreements except for those with companies that win a National Security Space Launch Phase 2 procurement contract.
United Launch Alliance launched an Atlas 5 rocket carrying the U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane to orbit on 2020-05-17.
On 2020-05-15 the U.S. Air Force opened a bidding process to select the permanent location of U.S. Space Command headquarters.
The Air Force expects to select the permanent U.S. Space Command headquarters location in early 2021 and estimates it will take up to six years to build new facilities.
The ongoing National Security Space Launch Phase 2 competition by the U.S. Air Force plans to award contracts to two companies this summer.
Lt. Gen. David Thompson participated in an online interview on 2020-05-12 with retired Lt. Gen. David Deptula, dean of the Air Force Association’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
Rocket Lab completed construction of a launch complex at Wallops Island, Virginia and plans to launch an Air Force satellite from Wallops in August.
Participants in the 2020-05-04-7 conference workshop included officials from the Defense Innovation Unit, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the U.S. Space Force, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Space Council, NASA, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, academia, and the private sector.
The U.S. Air Force agreed to let VOX Space launch the STP-27VP mission from Guam.
The sixth mission of the U.S. Air Force’s reusable X-37B spaceplane is scheduled to launch 2020-05-16 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
FalconSat-8 is a small satellite developed by the U.S. Air Force Academy and funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett and Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond opened an online event hosted by the Space Foundation on 2020-05-06 to roll out a new Space Force recruitment video.
Blue Origin supports the Air Force continuing to support three U.S. launch service providers through 2023.