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The Department of Defense estimates the total cost of the National Security Space Launch program increased by $4,100,000,000 since December 2018.
The Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program dates back to 1994 when President Bill Clinton signed a National Space Transportation Policy assigning responsibility for expendable launch vehicles to the Department of Defense.
The House reduced the Pentagon’s $72,000,000 request for standing up a new service headquarters at the Pentagon to $15,000,000.
The Department of Defense spends about $15,000,000,000 per year on unclassified space activities.
House appropriators questioned the Air Force strategy for next-gen OPIR and cut the Department of Defense’s request by $201,000,000 in their report accompanying the 2020 defense markup.
Many members of Congress object to the Department of Defense proposal because it would create a large military bureaucracy and seek broad authorities to transfer personnel from other services.
Viasat has the opportunity to work with the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Defense to further develop, deploy, and demonstrate its Hybrid Adaptive Network concept with potential to provide future communications services to the government for multi-domain operations.
Viasat provides advanced global connectivity services to high-profile leaders within the U.S. Government and the Department of Defense via a multi-network, multi-orbit satellite communications system.
President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 3 in June 2018 directing the Defense Department to give the publicly releasable portion of its space situational awareness data to the Commerce Department.
The Senate version of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act does not allow the Department of Defense to create a service immediately and lays out a one-year transition plan during which Air Force Space Command would be rebranded as the U.S. Space Force.
The House Armed Services Committee completed its review of Department of Defense reprogramming requests for fiscal year 2019 that totaled approximately $518,000,000 across multiple fiscal years.
In the 2019-03-12 memo that created the Space Development Agency, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan directed that Undersecretary Mike Griffin would work with the Department of Defense comptroller to reprogram funds during fiscal year 2019.
Executive Order 13533 provides an order of succession within the Department of Defense.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith and Ranking Member Mac Thornberry denied the Pentagon request to allocate $15,000,000 to the Space Development Agency for fiscal year 2019.
The requested $15,000,000 for the Space Development Agency was described in the HASC letter as an initial downpayment on a total cost of $558,000,000 that the Department of Defense projected to request for the agency over five years.
The administration proposed creating a Space Force headquarters in the Pentagon led by a four-star chief of staff, a four-star vice chief of staff, and an undersecretary of the Air Force for space.
On 2019-07-15, Richard Spencer became the third acting Pentagon chief in 2019 following the resignation of Jim Mattis on 2019-12-31.
The denial of the $15,000,000 for the Space Development Agency was conveyed in a 2019-07-03 letter to Pentagon Comptroller David Norquist.
The House directed the Department of Defense and the Space Development Agency to design prototypes of secure GPS receivers capable of receiving position, navigation, and timing signals from allied PNT systems such as Europe’s Galileo, Japan’s QZSS, and India’s NAVIC.
The NDAA directs the Department of Defense to contract with a federally funded research and development center or another independent entity to conduct a study on deterrence in space.