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Air Force Hikes Funding For New Space Consortium

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, May 24th, 2018

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Air Force Hikes Funding For New Space Consortium

Air Force Space Command chief Gen. John Raymond. Photo: Air Force.

The U.S. Air Force’s new Space Enterprise Consortium, which promotes the development of industry prototypes, is getting a five-fold increase in funding because the service is pleased with its results, according to a top Air Force space official.Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper recently approved raising the consortium’s $100 million ceiling to $500 million because the entity has “been so useful to us” in rapidly acquiring new capabilities, said Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, the head of Air Force Space Command,…

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