Air Force anticipates funding for follow-on AEHF, SBIRS in FY-18 budget

By Courtney Albon / August 4, 2016 at 4:10 PM
The Air Force expects that the fiscal year 2018 budget will include funding to begin development of follow-on systems for its missile warning and protected satellite communications constellations after several years of working to make sure the potential solutions are resilient and adaptable to new and future threats in space. Winston Beauchamp, staff director for the principal Defense Department space adviser, told Inside the Air Force this week the service has completed analyses of alternatives for the next iteration of...

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