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The Department of Defense plans to stand up the Space Development Agency to develop and acquire space technologies.
The legislative proposal to establish a Space Force would need to specify the service’s scope to determine how much money the Pentagon must request in the Fiscal Year 2020 budget.
The Department of Defense planned to stand up the Space Development Agency in early 2019.
FalconSat-6 will be the first Defense Department satellite to use a commercial cloud-based ground network.
DoD contract obligations for applied research known as 6.5 projects for next-generation weapons systems were just under $3,000,000,000 in 2017, according to CSIS.
Commission co-chairs Eric Edelman and retired Navy Adm. Gary Roughead identified the possibility that the Pentagon could face funding cuts in 2020 as a result of Trump administration efforts to cut federal spending.
DoD spending on OTA contracts increased from about $700,000,000 in 2015 to more than $2,100,000,000 in 2017, according to CSIS contracting data.
CSIS analysis shows that DoD procurement budget growth in 2017 was largely spent on buying more of existing systems rather than on next-generation systems.
The Defense Department completed an inventory of space activities across different services to improve sharing and assess distributed efforts.
A 2018-11-19 version of the draft policy would direct the Pentagon to propose a Space Force as a separate military branch with its own civilian leadership.
The Department of Defense is evaluating the back-office and supporting efforts required to establish a Space Force.
Shanahan believes that the Space Development Agency is essential to the Pentagon’s strategy to advance technologically as China and Russia invest in counter-space systems.
Shanahan and Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin advocate for an overhaul in the way the Department of Defense procures technology.
Shanahan stated that the Department of Defense has made leveraging commercial technology too complicated, and the Space Development Agency would simplify this process.
Critics highlight that the Department of Defense has not explained the functions of the Space Development Agency or its relationship with existing space procurement organizations.
The White House directed the Pentagon to lower the projected national defense funding top line for fiscal year 2020 from $733,000,000,000 to $700,000,000,000.
APT works under contracts to support safety at more than 40 U.S. government agencies, including NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, and the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board.
Congress directed the Department of Defense in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act to hire an independent think tank to analyze the cost of a space service.
A secret Center for Naval Analyses report circulating in the Pentagon produced cost estimates for a new space service (not including Space Command) that are consistent with Heather Wilson’s $13,000,000,000 five-year estimate.
Todd Harrison estimated it would cost the Pentagon an additional $1,500,000,000 to $2,700,000,000 over five years to stand up a new Space Force, based on the assumption that more than 96 percent of the cost would be covered from existing DoD budget accounts.