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Blue Origin’s protest seeks to compel the Air Force to break the five-year Phase 2 block-buy into smaller lots of launches to create more frequent competitions and on-ramps for new entrants.
Blue Origin filed a pre-award protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office on 2019-08-12 challenging the Air Force’s Phase 2 launch service procurement.
The Air Force intends to select two winners in 2020 to split national security launch missions on a 60/40 basis for launches from 2022 to 2026.
In February the Air Force selected Falcon Heavy for the AFSPC-44 mission as part of a $297,000,000 contract that also includes two Falcon 9 launches for NRO satellites NROL-85 and NROL-87.
Space Test Program-2 was a U.S. government-funded space launch managed by the Air Force.
In Phase 2 the Air Force will select two launch providers from a field of four competitors that includes United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman.
SpaceX must demonstrate with the single-core Falcon 9 and the three-core Falcon Heavy that it can meet all mass/orbit combinations required by the Air Force to win a Phase 2 contract.
In June 2018 the Air Force awarded SpaceX a $130,000,000 contract to launch the Air Force Space Command-52 (AFSPC-52) satellite aboard Falcon Heavy.
The Commerce Department’s Space Policy Directive 3 initiative includes creating an open architecture data repository (OADR) to combine Air Force data with commercial and allied sources.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded The Aerospace Corp. a $1,080,000,000 modification to a previously awarded contract for systems engineering and integration support for national security space programs.
The U.S. Air Force has agreements with more than 450 organizations that together operate 2,200 spacecraft.
NOAA is transferring the decommissioned GOES-13 satellite to the U.S. Air Force to operate at a new orbital location.
The U.S. Air Force expressed interest in acquiring a spare GOES satellite at a January 2017 meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Seattle.
NOAA will operate GOES-13 on behalf of the U.S. Air Force during the satellite’s remaining life span once it reaches its new location and its instruments are checked out.
Air Force Space Command intends the futures in the "The Future of Space 2060" report to provide inputs for national strategy and policy making rather than to dictate a single path forward.
United Launch Alliance received $967,000,000 in Air Force funding to help defray the expense of meeting the government’s unique launch requirements.
Blue Origin received $500,000,000 in Air Force funding to help defray the expense of meeting the government’s unique launch requirements.
The Air Force plans to select two winners in 2020 for the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 Launch Service Procurement.
SpaceX filed a protest with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on 2019-05-17 over the Air Force’s 2019-10-10 decision to provide funding to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and ULA but not to SpaceX.
Air Force Space Command released a report on 2019-09-05 titled "The Future of Space 2060 and Implications for U.S. Strategy" based on a workshop the command hosted with experts and academics.