
House and Senate negotiators have crafted a final version of the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization bill that overhauls military space management but stops short of accepting a controversial House proposal to create a space corps in the Air Force Department.In a joint statement Nov. 8, Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), the House’s leading space-corps proponents, welcomed the compromise bill, calling it “the first step in fundamentally changing and improving the national security space programs of the Department…