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Authorization Bill Directs Air Force Money Toward New Rocket Engine, Not Vehicle

Pat Host

Wednesday, September 30th, 2015

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Authorization Bill Directs Air Force Money Toward New Rocket Engine, Not Vehicle

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., is covered under the Air Force's launch range support consolidation contract. Photo: ULA.

A provision in the conferenced fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill bans the Air Force from spending money on new launch vehicles in favor of a new rocket engine in its rocket propulsion system program.“We have an engine problem,” a congressional source told Defense Daily. “We have a Russian engine we want to get rid of, let’s build a U.S. engine and try to leverage this existing infrastructure and launch vehicles.”Section 1606 says funds authorized in the FY ’15 National…

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