
The Department of the Air Force's top space acquisition official said that he wants to use the cost and schedule realism injected by the National Reconnaissance Office into its competitions over the last few years. 'They've gotten really good over the last few years of really pushing for cost realism and schedule realism in their competitive RfPs (Request for Proposals)," Frank Calvelli, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration, told a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace…