The Air Force's strategy to develop the next generation of missile warning satellites on an aggressive schedule using new acquisition concepts and resiliency standards hit a snag last fall when Congress partially denied funding for a reprogramming request, delaying the start of payload development by about four months, according to a service official. In December 2017, just three months before the release of the Air Force's fiscal year 2019 budget request, the service landed on a new strategy for the...
