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The Air Force publishes two-line elements that show spacecraft locations at specific times.
The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2021 budget request includes $88,000,000 to complete construction of a Consolidated Space Operations Facility at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado.
In September 2018 the U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth $7,200,000,000 to build up to 22 GPS 3F satellites.
The $88,000,000 requested in 2021 is part of the Air Force’s $767,000,000 military construction budget and would allow the Air Force to complete the Consolidated Space Operations Facility by March 2022.
The $15,400,000,000 request excludes about $800,000,000 in personnel costs that remain in the Air Force budget because the Space Force did not yet have a separate accounting system.
In the 2021 budget the U.S. Air Force transferred $15,400,000,000 from existing accounts to the U.S. Space Force.
The 2021 budget includes $160,000,000 for the Wide Field of View, a 1,000-kilogram geosynchronous satellite the Air Force will launch in 2020 to advance space-based missile warning research.
The Air Force requested $88,000,000 in its 2021 military construction budget for an upgraded space operations facility at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado.
The U.S. Space Force was established 2019-12-20 as an independent service under the Department of the Air Force.
The Air Force requested $20,000,000 in its 2021 military construction budget to begin construction of a space control facility for the Air National Guard at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
Nearly 20 percent of the $207,000,000,000 Air Force budget request for 2021, or about $38 billion, is passed through to other agencies.
The Air Force received $1,200,000,000 in 2020 for four national security launches.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act created the U.S. Space Force and gives the Department of Defense and the Air Force flexibility to adjust the organization subject to conditions.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a contract in September 2018 for up to 22 GPS 3F satellites.
The Air Force Research Laboratory plans to launch NTS-3 in 2022.
Thompson stated that the Air Force aims to make systems as cybersecure as possible, acknowledging that achieving complete cyberproof systems may not be realistic.
Virgin Orbit is working with the U.S. Air Force to perform a LauncherOne launch from Guam to demonstrate the system’s flexibility.
The report delivered to Congress on 2020-02-03 outlines a plan to start transferring an estimated 6,000 military personnel from the Air Force and smaller numbers from the Army and Navy later 2020.
The 2018 contract for NTS-3 includes options for the Air Force to buy up to nine satellites.
The Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) is an experimental navigation satellite developed by L3Harris for the U.S. Air Force that passed a preliminary design review on 2020-02-05.