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Air Force

Fixed Price Contracts Increasingly Part of NRO Buys, Official Says

Frank Wolfe

Monday, March 18th, 2024

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Fixed Price Contracts Increasingly Part of NRO Buys, Official Says

Joint Task Force-Space Defense leaders met with Troy Meink, principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office Schriever Space Force Base, Colo. on Aug. 31, 2022 (U.S. Space Force Photo)

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is increasingly using fixed price contracts, even as the agency uses a range of buy options, NRO principal deputy director Troy Meink said on March 18. In June 2022, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration Frank Calvelli credited Meink with giving him faith in fixed price contracts (Defense Daily, June 24, 2022). "Frank and I have had more conversations than I can count on this topic--how you structure acquisition contracts…

Congress

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