As the Air Force Research Laboratory and U.S. Transportation Command work with industry to better understand how the Defense Department might leverage a future commercial space cargo transport capability, one of the primary imperatives has been to ensure DOD is the first customer in line when companies begin to offer it. TRANSCOM Commander Gen. Steve Lyons announced earlier this month that his organization has signed Cooperative Research and Development Agreements with SpaceX and XArc -- a space architecture and engineering...
