After President Trump signed the massive $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill March 23, Pentagon officials have gone out of their way to thank Congress.
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Wilson: Space programs can move faster, but Congress has to tolerate some failures
Wilson believes the Air Force should embrace its cultural past, when it took big chances on technologies.
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Air Force: It’s time to pull the plug on JSTARS; Congress: Not so fast
The argument the Air Force makes in its 2019 budget request for not buying new aircraft to replace the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or JSTARS, is rather straightforward. It can’t survive modern air defenses.
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Goldfein: Air staff ‘excited’ about new three-star space commander
The new vice commander Lt. Gen. Thompson will help Gen. Raymond advance Air Force Space Command issues in D.C.
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Air Force stakes future on privately funded launch vehicles. Will the gamble pay off?
The Launch Service Agreement fits the Air Force’s broader goal to get out of the business of “buying rockets” and instead acquire end-to-end services from companies.
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Some fresh tidbits on the U.S. military space budget
The Air Force’s share of the Defense Department’s $12.5 billion national security space budget is $11.4 billion.
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House members energized by Trump’s sudden attention to space warfare
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry: “We will not relax our effort on space reforms. This topic is just too important.”
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Air Force secretary raises space awareness inside Pentagon; Startups grab spotlight at satellite industry’s annual DC trade show
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson is using regular meetings with her Army and Navy counterparts to keep her colleagues up to date on space issues and on the emerging concept of “multi-domain” military operations that requires broader sharing of information.
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Air Force changing how it buys weapons and satellites, but software still a headache
Air Force acquisitions chief William Roper said software acquisition “continues to lead to overruns.”
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Aerospace Corp.’s iLab encourages out-of-the-box thinking without leaving home
Instead of designing satellites years before they launch to perform specific tasks, what if small multipurpose satellites were designed for a variety of jobs? And what if those satellites could be launched separately before linking in orbit to perform one mission, then reconfigured to tackle a different job? That’s the concept behind the Aerospace Corporation’s adaptable multipurpose satellite concept, called Hive.
