The Air Force is laying the ground work for procurement of a new-start program called the Weather System Follow-On (WSF) with a Milestone A goal of fiscal year 2015. Air Force Col. Heath Collins, deputy director of remote sensing at the service’s Space and Missile Systems Center (AFSMC), said Nov. 7 acquisition planning has begun and that strategy should land in the hands of AFSMC Commander Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves by the end of 2014. The announcement is noteworthy as…
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