The Space and Missile Systems Center is looking to boost funding for a fiscal year 2020 new-start program that would consolidate and focus investment in innovative prototyping efforts across the space enterprise. The Air Force has traditionally used research and development funding allocated for individual programs to support prototyping work, but its FY-20 budget request featured a new program element, dubbed Space System Prototypes Transition. The funding would support prototyping efforts across its development portfolio and, according to budget documents,...