The Defense Department's adoption of a more threat-informed approach to identifying capability gaps in its space architectures has refined the investments its fiscal year 2017 budget proposes for existing programs, but officials recently told Inside the Air Force that any resulting new programs will not be reflected until at least 2018. Winston Beauchamp, the Air Force's deputy under secretary for space, told ITAF on Feb. 25 that the FY-17 budget includes funding to accelerate some existing programs --...
