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Air Force Looking To Expand Space Partnership Opportunities With Industry In 2019

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, January 25th, 2019

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Air Force Looking To Expand Space Partnership Opportunities With Industry In 2019

Official portrait - Lt. Gen. David Thompson taken in the Air Force portrait studio, April 13, 2018, Pentagon. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wayne A. Clark)

A top Air Force official said industry partners will see an increasing role as a “powerful arm of our national security and economic viability” in space over the next year as the service looks to expand commercial launches and grow its new experimental space technology consortium, Lt. Gen. David Thompson, vice commander of Air Force Space Command, told attendees at a Friday Mitchell Institute event the Air Force is specifically looking provide “effective, lower cost, reliable, rapid support” for commercial…

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