Air Force Teams With NRO For Secret SSA Bird
After years of missed deadlines, cost overruns and underperformance the Air Force has split the requirements for the troubled Joint Mission System program’s Increment 3, dividing them between the Coalition Space Operations Center and the National Space Defense Center. In a separate but apparently related action, the Air Force has also partnered with the nation's spy satellite builder to create a new Space Situational Awareness satellite.