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The 2019-10-01 NDAA provides the Secretary of the Air Force authority to transfer Air Force personnel to the newly established Space Force.
Congressional defense committee leaders unveiled a conference agreement for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 that authorizes a U.S. Space Force as an independent military branch under the Department of the Air Force.
The 2019-10-01 NDAA creates a Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration as the senior space architect.
The 2019-10-01 NDAA establishes the U.S. Space Force in Title 10 as the sixth Armed Service of the United States under the U.S. Air Force.
SpaceX needed to demonstrate direct-to-GEO mission capability before flying classified national security missions to GEO in late 2020 under Air Force contracts already awarded.
The six-hour coast and deorbit burn test was requested by the U.S. Air Force to demonstrate the Falcon 9 can deliver national security payloads directly to geosynchronous Earth orbit.
A new U.S. military service has not been created since 1947, when the Air Force was spun off from the Army.
On 2019-12-06, the Air Force awarded L3Harris a $17,900,000 contract to integrate commercial space internet services on military aircraft.
On 2019-12-06, the Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $9,900,000 contract to integrate commercial space internet services on military aircraft.
The Air Force plans to select two launch providers and award each a five-year contract in the third quarter of fiscal year 2020.
The Air Force planned a Phase 2 award under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement to select two launch providers.
An Atlas V launched the Air Force AEHF-5 satellite in August 2019.
The Air Force’s 2019-05-03 request for proposals stated it would make two awards by selecting two independently developed proposals that, when combined, offered the best value to the government.
York Space Systems won a $12,800,000 U.S. Air Force contract in July to build a microsatellite called Tetra-3.
The U.S. Air Force will release a revised request for proposals for the procurement of national security launch services in response to a Government Accountability Office ruling dated 2019-11-18.
The Air Force’s WGS-10 satellite was launched aboard a Delta IV Medium in March 2019.
The National Reconnaissance Office began as a secret program in 1960 established jointly by the U.S. Air Force and the CIA.
The Air Force and Boeing are negotiating the terms of a $605,000,000 deal that Boeing was awarded in April to produce WGS-11+.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center announced the acceptance of WGS-10 on 2019-11-26.
The Air Force request for proposals stated it would select two providers whose proposals, when combined, offer the best value to the government and that those two providers would split launches 60/40 over a five-year contract.