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Air Force ORS Office Eyes Prototyping To Further Decrease Costs

Monday, March 13th, 2017

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The Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office is looking to build more prototypes in its quest to decrease costs while still providing urgent, exquisite capabilities airmen require, according to the office’s director.Col. Shahnaz Punjani said March 6 that different directorates are putting together wish lists of key technologies they would like to demonstrate in a future prototype. The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Advanced Systems and Development Directorate (ASDD) chief, she said, is looking at how…

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