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The Department of Defense must develop a plan to acquire user terminals as part of its future wideband architecture.
In May 2018 congressional appropriators added $600,000,000 to the Air Force’s budget to procure two additional WGS satellites that the Department of Defense had not requested.
The Wideband AoA recommended that the Department of Defense develop a strategy to centralize user terminal procurement, but that strategy has not been implemented.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 directed the Government Accountability Office to review the Department of Defense’s Wideband AoA.
The Department of Defense spends an average of $4,000,000,000 per year to acquire and sustain wideband satellite communications.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 directs the Department of Defense to deliver to Congress a study by March 2020 for acquiring tactical responsive launch capabilities using commercial vehicles and facilities.
The 2019 Air Force small launch directorate missions also included STP-27RD aboard a Rocket Lab Electron, an MDA intercept flight test FTT-23 of the THAAD system, and a flight test of a prototype conventionally configured ground-launched ballistic missile for the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office.
The conference report supports a discretionary topline of $738,000,000,000 for the Department of Defense consistent with the bipartisan budget agreement.
Under Space Policy Directive 3, the Department of Defense is still required to maintain the authoritative satellite catalog that forms the foundation of the catalog the Department of Commerce will maintain.
The U.S. military now considers outer space a domain of warfare due to increasing congestion and the development of weapons by rival nations targeting U.S. satellites.
The Pentagon cannot create the Space Force while operating under a continuing resolution.
The Air Force Space Command assumed responsibility for procuring commercial satcom services for the Department of Defense in December 2018 by congressional mandate.
The Air Force is working with the Pentagon to address concerns raised by the GAO about the Space C2 program.
The Government Accountability Office released an 2019-10-30 report criticizing the Space C2 program for lacking an acquisition strategy and calling for greater Pentagon oversight.
Congress had not yet approved the Pentagon’s requested 2020 funding for the Space Development Agency because federal spending bills for 2020 had not been passed.
In a draft fiscal year 2021 budget proposal under review by Department of Defense leaders, the Space Development Agency seeks nearly $11,000,000,000 over five years to plan, design, and deploy large constellations of satellites for military use.
The Pentagon’s 2020 budget requested nearly $150,000,000 for the Space Development Agency, including $44,700,000 for personnel, $20,000,000 for space research and development, and $85,000,000 for space technology prototyping.
U.S. law passed in 2015 requires the Department of Defense to end its reliance on Russian rocket engines, limiting DoD purchases of Atlas V launches through 2022.
It is unclear whether the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act will authorize the Department of Defense to establish a U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces.
The WGS constellation of 10 satellites provides broadband communications to the U.S. military and allied partners.