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“I’ve never gotten a briefing from the Space Development Agency,” Roper said, “so I don’t know what their plan, I don’t know what they’re intending.”
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Roper says he hopes Congress “will smile on the Air Force for breaking out of ‘Platform Land’ and actually putting money towards digital transformation.”
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Development of the ISR satellite terminal prototype is a foundational element of the Army’s multi-domain operation plans.
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Aerospace was able to build and test both sats within 16 months, and launch them after only 18 months — a fraction of the average seven to eight years it traditionally has taken the service.
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“It’s not enough to develop and procure systems anymore. We’ve got to get in the business of of buying ideas and generating ideas,” says Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper.
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GAO finds that the Space C2 program “is planning to meet previously deferred requirements that proved too complex for prior programs to achieve,” and “also plans to address new and emerging threats to space assets, for which requirements are not yet defined.”
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On-orbit transfer and maneuvering capabilities also could potentially enable future national security satellites to avoid debris or anti-satellite weapons, or underpin space weapons development.
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SMC’s new SSA Marketplace will be open for business in fourth quarter 2020 or first quarter 2021.
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“A lot of the challenges we face in space are big data problems,” says Gen. John Raymond, who is dual-hatted as commander of Space Command and Air Force Space Command.
By Theresa Hitchens
Creation of the Space Development Agency was “disconnected from the threat and the needs of the warfighter,” say Wilson, thus “highly unlikely to survive serious scrutiny.”
By Heather Wilson