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The Air Force is expected to sign a contract with Boeing by the end of fiscal year 2002 to extend Delta II launch operations by at least four years in order to send remaining Global Positioning System satellites into orbit, according to documents and Air Force officials.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- U.S. Space Command chief Gen. Ed Eberhart said this week that shifting command of the Space and Missile Systems Center from Air Force Materiel Command to Air Force Space Command is "not a hostile takeover," but a "merger of the willing," and critical to forging a cadre of space professionals in uniform.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will announce major changes to improve the leadership, management and organization of the nation's defense and intelligence space program Tuesday (May 8), the Pentagon said today.
The Bush administration has decided to replace National Reconnaissance Office Director Keith Hall, but officials have not announced when Hall will leave office, NRO spokesman Art Haubold said today.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- Al Smith, Lockheed Martin Space Systems vice president, is top on the administration's list of choices for under secretary of the Air Force, sources said last week.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- The Office of the Secretary of Defense has been considering the "unintended consequences" of implementing a number of sweeping organizational changes for national security space management as it prepares a response for Congress to a senior-level space panel's recommendations, according to a senior Defense Department official.
The Pentagon comptroller decided late last week to pick up the tab for shortfalls in the Air Force's baseline Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle program totaling roughly $300 million across the six-year spending plan, according to sources and documents.
A high-level space commission set up by Congress to evaluate U.S. space management issues has recommended making the position of Air Force Space Command chief separate from that of the head of the U.S. Space Command and NORAD, which would nullify the Air Force's historical hold over the influential position as chief of the unified command of space forces and give the Army and Navy a shot at the top uniformed space slot.
Maj. Gen. Howard Mitchell has been reassigned as the director of operations at Air Force Space Command headquarters, Peterson AFB, CO, the Defense Department announced this week.
Commercial satellite telecommunications provider GlobalStar this week protested the Defense Department's exclusive contract to venture capital firm Iridium Satellite LLC, claiming DOD barred competition for the contract, InsideDefense.com has learned.
Boeing's McDonnell Douglas has been awarded two contracts worth a total of $440 million for continued sustainment of the C-17 strategic airlifter, the Defense Department announced tonight.
A Predator unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed last week when it crashed during a preliminary test in support of the Air Force's effort to weaponize the system, sources said.
A House-Senate conference committee has agreed to terminate the Pentagon's Discoverer II program, congressional sources tell InsideDefense.com.
The Air Force's top two officials support shifting management and funding responsibilities for the low-earth orbit component of the Space Based Infrared System to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, according to a memo obtained by InsideDefense.com.
Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre this week elected to defer a decision on the future of the Discoverer II space-based radar, a program the Pentagon comptroller had recommended terminating at the end of its design phase, DefenseAlert has learned.