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Some Air Force SBIR programs require matching funds from private investors, but the 2020-03-30 solicitation allows companies to compete for $1,000,000 Air Force awards without private matching funds being required.
Proposals for the 2020-03-30 Air Force SBIR solicitation are due 2020-04-30.
Space Micro presented at Air Force Space Pitch Day in November, an event where the Air Force awarded $750,000 in Small Business Innovation Research contracts and invited firms to propose additional work.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act directs the Secretary of the Air Force to nominate an Assistant Secretary for Space Acquisition and Integration to oversee all space acquisitions.
Raytheon will deliver a fully qualified Block 1 software baseline capable of operating the GPS constellation to the Air Force in early 2021.
Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett is in the final stages of reviewing the report and is expected to sign it 2020-03-30 before it goes to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the White House for final approval.
The goal is to transfer 23 Air Force units and 1,840 Air Force billets located at bases in Colorado, California, Nevada, Ohio, New Mexico, and Maryland from the Air Force into the Space Force within the next three to six months as of 2020-03-31.
Implementing the 2020 NDAA language would require the Air Force to break up the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition led by Will Roper and create a co-equal separate office to oversee space programs.
The Space and Missile Systems Center plans to order as many as 1,500 Block 1 modems for the Air Force and the Army in the coming years.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center awarded contracts each worth up to $500,000,000 to Raytheon and L3Harris to develop and produce cyber secure satellite communications modems for the Department of the Air Force and the Army.
The Air Force has established venture-style programs that award contracts to small businesses with promising technologies, including continued awards of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts.
Slingshot Aerospace won a $1,500,000 U.S. Air Force contract and received $1,500,000 in matching private funds to expedite deployment of artificial intelligence-driven data analytics to Air Force Special Operations Command on 2020-03-26.
Energetic Charged Particle sensors are designed to improve Air Force space weather models and help distinguish anomalies caused by adversary actions versus space weather.
John "J.R." Riordan retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2011 after a 23-year career.
The U.S. Air Force selected Advanced Technology International, based in Charleston, South Carolina, in November 2017 to manage the consortium.
The U.S. Air Force continued to conduct global missions including deployed fighters and bombers, deployed maintainers, global mobility missions, and global space operations.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act requires the Air Force to nominate an assistant secretary for space acquisition and integration to oversee all space acquisitions.
The office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration is working with the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency on a separate report due to Congress in September 2020 explaining how multiple organizations that currently oversee missile-warning satellite programs plan to synchronize efforts.
The RAND study was delivered to the Air Force in September 2019, about three months before the Space Force was officially established in the National Defense Authorization Act.
The RAND study recommends that some Air Force career fields develop a 'space track' to provide the additional training and development necessary for Air Force officers who will serve in the Space Force.