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Renaming Air Force installations as Space Force bases is one of seven recommendations from the Space Force Planning Task Force intended to show visible progress toward establishing the U.S. Space Force.
Civilians will continue to work under the Department of the Air Force regardless of assignment to air or space elements and are not required to transfer service status.
In Fiscal Year 2019 defense appropriators directed the Air Force to develop an integrated architecture that should include government and commercial space systems.
In May 2018 congressional appropriators added $600,000,000 to the Air Force’s budget to procure two additional WGS satellites that the Department of Defense had not requested.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lunar Resources a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 contract with RSA as a subcontractor.
The 2019 Air Force small launch directorate missions also included STP-27RD aboard a Rocket Lab Electron, an MDA intercept flight test FTT-23 of the THAAD system, and a flight test of a prototype conventionally configured ground-launched ballistic missile for the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office.
The Air Force small launch directorate carried out five missions in 2019, including STP-2 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy and the Ascent Abort-2 flight test from a modified Peacekeeper missile.
The Air Force is reviewing bids and expects to award a contract in 2020 for STP-S28, the first mission of the Orbital Services Program-4 (OSP-4).
The nine missions planned by the Air Force small launch division in 2020 more than double the number of launches conducted by the division in 2019.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center small launch division is preparing to launch nine missions in 2020.
Space Policy Directive 3, issued in June 2018, directed the Commerce Department to take over civil and commercial space traffic management from the U.S. Air Force.
Northrop Grumman received a $792,000,000 Launch Service Agreement from the U.S. Air Force last year to support OmegA development for the National Security Space Launch program.
The bipartisan conference agreement for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit a report assessing the risks and costs from receiving only one bid for that phase and plans to mitigate such risks and costs.
The U.S. Air Force confirmed on 2019-12-13 that Northrop Grumman was the only bidder for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program to develop a new intercontinental ballistic missile.
The U.S. Air Force will be the first customer to launch an Electron rocket from Launch Complex 2 with the STP-27RM microsatellite mission in the second quarter of 2020.
In the AFWERX Open Topics SBIR, the Air Force offers two-to-one fund matching from the SBIR budget up to $1,500,000 for companies that have never received a Phase 2 award.
One Air Force SBIR goal is to reduce integration and assembly time and improve the manufacturability of components, buses, and payloads.
The Air Force projects that the initial standup of a Space Force headquarters could take about 90 days or less and that the new service could take three to five years to be fully staffed and operational.
Cooper and Rogers wrote language to establish a Space Corps under the Department of the Air Force in the 2018 NDAA but that bill was defeated in the House-Senate conference.
The National Defense Authorization Act provides the Secretary of the Air Force with the authority to transfer Air Force personnel to the newly established Space Force.