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The Air Force plans to install a Starlink terminal on an AC-130 gunship aircraft for testing the service in the near term.
On 2019-11-06 the companies were scheduled to present their plans publicly and the U.S. Air Force was prepared to announce additional contracts.
Optivolt Labs received $750,000 to provide a deployable solar power system for U.S. Air Force space communications.
The U.S. Air Force awarded a total of $9,000,000 to 12 companies on the first Air Force Space Pitch Day in San Francisco on 2019-11-05.
Air Force Space Command will hold a tabletop exercise 2019-11-05-7 in Chantilly, Virginia focused on the future of military launch facilities and their ability to support growth in commercial space.
Under the Space C2 program, the Air Force is developing software applications used by military commanders and analysts to monitor and understand activity in space.
The Air Force is working with the Pentagon to address concerns raised by the GAO about the Space C2 program.
Investing in early-stage U.S. startups via initiatives like Pitch Day is intended to grow the Air Force’s supplier base and develop a dual-use industry base outside the traditional defense sector.
The Air Force’s latest Space C2 effort uses agile software development methods to incrementally deliver updates.
The U.S. Air Force selected 30 startups and small businesses to participate in a live pitch event on 2019-11-05-6 in San Francisco focused on the space industry.
The Government Accountability Office gave low marks to the Air Force’s Space Command and Control program in a report released on 2019-10-30.
The House Armed Services Committee recommended a $21,500,000 cut to the Air Force’s $72,800,000 funding request for Space C2 for fiscal year 2020.
The undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment directed the Air Force in a May 2019 memo to provide an acquisition strategy for Space C2 by November 2019.
The Air Force is hosting a Hypersonics Pitch Day on 2019-11-07 in Niceville, Florida, near Eglin Air Force Base.
The Air Force is targeting Pitch Day awards to companies that have developed new types of infrared sensors or synthetic aperture radar that have not yet been commercialized.
The U.S. Air Force selected York to deliver two spacecraft for deployment in geosynchronous orbit.
York Space Systems’ S-CLASS platform achieved a successful launch prior to 2019-10-29 and has been awarded missions for the United States Air Force.
The Air Force contract for ASLON-45 requires the launch to occur before 2021-10-01.
Aevum moved from winning a $50,000 SBIR study grant to receiving a $4,900,000 U.S. Air Force launch contract within three weeks.
On 2019-10-10, Aevum became one of eight launch service providers qualified by the U.S. Air Force to compete for $986,000,000 in small- and medium-sized launch missions over nine years.