SMC Offers To Help Speed Deals For SDA

SMC Offers To Help Speed Deals For SDA
SMC Offers To Help Speed Deals For SDA

The Space & Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium has been so successful at providing competitive prototypes, fast, that SMC wants to expand its scope dramatically.

Air Force Acquisition Test: Missile Warning Sats In 5 Years to Orbit?!

Air Force Acquisition Test: Missile Warning Sats In 5 Years to Orbit?!
Air Force Acquisition Test: Missile Warning Sats In 5 Years to Orbit?!

SPACE SYMPOSIUM: The Air Force, eager to get inside the decision cycle of China and Russia, is pressing ahead hard and fast to substantially speed space acquisition. In what is something of a test case for the service, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson last night committed to building the next generation of missile warning satellites,…

Issues To Watch At Space & Missile Defense Conference: Heritage

Issues To Watch At Space & Missile Defense Conference: Heritage
Issues To Watch At Space & Missile Defense Conference: Heritage

Monday marks the beginning of the Army-centric Space and Missile Defense Symposium, an annual conference in Huntsville, Ala.  Here are a few topics likely to generate conference buzz. Missile Defense The Obama administration’s 2016 budget request for missile defense investments went up slightly to $9.6 billion for missile defense development and operations, of which $8.1 billion is for the Missile Defense…