Welcome to today's Space Briefing, a biweekly roundup of the latest national security space news. Top Story Air Force works to mitigate early Next-Gen OPIR delay after Congress partially denies reprogramming 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...