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Air Force

Hyten Warns Continuing Resolution Could Hold New Launch Vehicle Start

Pat Host

Wednesday, September 16th, 2015

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Hyten Warns Continuing Resolution Could Hold New Launch Vehicle Start

An artist's rendering of a GPS III satellite. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The Air Force's effort to procure a next-generation rocket propulsion system would be put on hold if lawmakers can't pass a fiscal year 2016 budget and, instead, pass a continuing resolution (CR), the service's top space officer warned Wednesday.Passing a CR, which funds the government at the previous fiscal year's funding levels, means no new programs can start. In addition to the new rocket propulsion system, which Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) chief Gen. John Hyten said was…

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