Air Force Space Command is eyeing the fiscal year 2012 time frame to make key recommendations on the requirements for a successor for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite constellation, the command's chief tells Inside the Air Force . In April, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that the Defense Department canceled AEHF's then-follow-on system, the Transformational Satellite Communications System. Following that decision, the air service charged Boeing and Lockheed Martin -- the competitors for the multibillion-dollar TSAT contract -- with...
