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In a 2019-12-02 memo, Secretary Barrett requested transfer of fiscal year 2020 Air Force funds to Space Force accounts including $9,300,000,000 for weapons systems and operations and $1,400,000,000 for weapons system sustainment.
Momentum to create a separate U.S. space service began building again in 2017 when Representatives Mike Rogers and Jim Cooper proposed legislation to create a Space Corps within the Department of the Air Force.
The intelligence community opposed merging the National Reconnaissance Office with the U.S. Space Force, while some stakeholders support transferring Air Force elements within the NRO that directly support satellite operations to the U.S. Space Force.
The U.S. Space Force was established within the Department of the Air Force by renaming Air Force Space Command and directing the Department of Defense to form the new branch with existing Air Force resources.
A team of U.S. military and civilian defense officials spent most of 2019 drawing up plans to create a U.S. Space Force as a new service branch within the Department of the Air Force.
Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett stated that about 16,000 personnel from Air Force Space Command have been assigned to the U.S. Space Force and that the transition will take about 18 months.
SpaceX contends that the Air Force awarded $2,300,000,000 in Launch Service Agreements to three launch providers while excluding SpaceX.
SpaceX is challenging the Air Force’s October 2018 decision to award Launch Service Agreements to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance.
The Air Force plans to select two providers in 2020 for the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 procurement.
The U.S. government and the three companies that received Air Force LSA contracts filed motions on 2020-01-17 opposing SpaceX’s request.
Viasat received an Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity contract worth up to $90,000,000 from the U.S. Air Force to supply Link 16 handheld radios.
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) was awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ceiling of $90,000,000 to provide handheld Link 16 radios to the United States Air Force.
Space Force planning teams have been working on new uniform designs, a Space Force logo, and a Space Force seal, and details were briefed to President Trump on 2020-01-15 by Gen. John Raymond, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 established a new, independent U.S. Space Force within the Department of the Air Force.
On 2019-12-20, Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett assigned 16,000 airmen and civilians who worked under Air Force Space Command to the Space Force.
PlanetIQ has raised $18,700,000 and holds contracts from NOAA and the U.S. Air Force.
The U.S. Air Force is moving a retired National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration geostationary weather satellite into orbit over the Indian Ocean.
RAND identifies selecting a third provider under the Phase 2 contract as an alternative way the Air Force can mitigate the risk of new vehicles not being ready by 2022.
The RAND study does not recommend changing the Air Force decision to award national security launch contracts to two providers later 2020.
The RAND study recommends having a viable third provider at least until 2023 to provide breathing room for the Air Force.