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Marc Selinger
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Air ForceLawmakers Seek To Block Funding For Space Corps, Space-Based Missile Defense
As the full House gears up to consider its fiscal year 2018 defense appropriations bill this week, lawmakers have submitted more than 140 amendments for potential consideration, including proposals to […]
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Air ForceAir Force Issues Draft RFP For Next Order Of GPS III Satellites
The Air Force has taken a step toward re-competing production of Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellites by releasing a draft solicitation for up to 22 spacecraft. Industry feedback on […]
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SpaceDeveloping Falcon Heavy Rocket Is Harder Than Expected, SpaceX’s Musk Says
Developing SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has proven more challenging than expected, according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Musk said at a conference July 19 that he originally thought the project […]
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SpaceSierra Nevada Taps ULA To Launch Dream Chaser To Space Station
Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) announced July 19 that it has picked the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket to launch the Dream Chaser spaceplane’s first two cargo resupply missions to […]
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Air ForceGulfstream Developing In-Flight Refueling For Military Users
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Gulfstream Aerospace, a General Dynamics [GD] company, is developing an in-flight refueling capability for its G550 business jet that it hopes will help it win military orders, […]
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CongressShanahan Confirmed, Sworn In As Pentagon Deputy
Former Boeing [BA] executive Patrick Shanahan was sworn in as the 33rd deputy secretary of defense during an informal ceremony July 19, a day after the Senate voted, 92-7, to […]
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PentagonDoD To Seek Funding Shift To Shore Up Innovation Unit
The Department of Defense plans to send a reprogramming request to Congress to ensure the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) does not run out of money for the rest of […]
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CongressDoD Acquisition Nominee Eyes Greater Role For Commercial Technology
Ellen Lord, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Pentagon acquisition chief, said July 18 that she will push the Defense Department to make “far more use” of commercial technology if she […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyOrbital ATK Loses Bid To Block DARPA Satellite Servicing Program
A federal judge has told the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that it can proceed with developing a satellite-servicing spacecraft, rebuffing Orbital ATK [OA], which charged that the government program […]
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UncategorizedNASA Defends Plan To End Role In DSCOVR Satellite
Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot the week of June 25 defended his agency’s proposal to end its participation in the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), saying that 20 other spacecraft on […]