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The Air Force signed cost-sharing agreements in October 2018 with Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance to help pay for vehicle development and launch infrastructure.
The Air Force agreed to provide Blue Origin $500,000,000 between 2019 and 2024 to cover some costs of preparing the New Glenn rocket and related infrastructure to support military launches.
The Air Force issued a request for proposals for NSSL Phase 2 on 2019-05-03 that stated it would make two awards by picking two independently developed proposals that, "when combined," offered the best value to the government.
Blue Origin filed a pre-award protest with the Government Accountability Office on 2019-08-12 challenging the Air Force’s RFP evaluation criteria.
The Office of Space Commerce is implementing an open-architecture data repository designed to combine Air Force tracking data with data from other sources to identify potential close approaches.
In NSSL Phase 2 the Air Force intends to award two five-year contracts in mid-2020.
Morpheus Space did not win the Air Force contract directly but won it as part of a team with a U.S. firm.
Capella Space won a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract from the U.S. Air Force following its presentation at Air Force Space Pitch Day in San Francisco in early November.
Sequoia will deliver 0.5-meter very high-resolution SAR data to the U.S. Air Force and to several additional international government and commercial customers.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Capella Space a $50,000 SBIR Phase I contract prior to Air Force Space Pitch Day.
The Government Accountability Office sustained Blue Origin’s protest of the Air Force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 2 request for proposals on 2019-11-18.
According to the Air Force’s RFP, the government will make the two awards by selecting which combination of two independently developed proposals offers the best value to the government.
The Air Force’s NSSL Phase 2 procurement aims to award two contracts expected to cover 30 or more medium- and heavy-lift satellite launches the Air Force plans to conduct between 2022 and 2026.
The Air Force Space Command directed personnel on 2019-10-04 to stop using the term “space situational awareness” and instead use the term “space domain awareness”.
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $3,300,000,000 contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center on 2019-11-15 for support services on classified military communications satellites.
Lockheed Martin has delivered five of the six AEHF satellites procured by the U.S. Air Force.
Maj. Gen. John Shaw's memo directs all space organizations in the Air Force to adopt the term SDA effective immediately.
The Air Force Space Command introduced the term Space Domain Awareness (SDA) as a replacement for Space Situational Awareness (SSA).
Maj. Gen. John Shaw, the deputy commander of Air Force Space Command, wrote a memo on October 4 emphasizing the need for SDA.
Roger Thompson, a senior engineer at The Aerospace Corp., indicated that Air Force Space Command leaders debated the terminology change before adopting SDA.