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Air Force Solicits Responses for OSP-4 Launch Services

By Vivienne Machi

Thursday, August 15th, 2019

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Air Force Solicits Responses for OSP-4 Launch Services

Orbital's Minotaur IV launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Aug. 26, 2017, carrying the ORS-5 space-tracing satellite. Photo: Orbital ATK.

The Air Force released Aug. 14 its solicitation for the Orbital Services Program-4 (OSP-4) program to rapidly launch payloads within two years of task order award. The service’s Rocket Systems Launch Program Office, which sits under Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s (SMC) Launch Enterprise, released the solicitation less than three months after issuing the draft request for proposals (Defense Daily, May 31). OSP-4 is an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for which the Air Force expects to procure about 20…

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