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Civilian Cuts To Space Force Workforce Will Challenge Acquisitions, Purdy Warns

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 12th, 2025

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Civilian Cuts To Space Force Workforce Will Challenge Acquisitions, Purdy Warns

Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, acting assistant secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition and Integration. Air Force photo

Defense Department plans to reduce its civilian workforce will make it difficult on the U.S. Space Force’s acquisition offices and lead to program delays unless some requirements are dropped, the acting Space Acquisition Executive said this week. The actual impact will be hard to quantify, but the Space Force is “a heavily acquisition force” and civilians provide “continuity” within the various systems program offices, and so a reduction in force “will impact us in a pretty great way,” Maj. Gen.…

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