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No Deadline For Enacting RD-180 National Security Waiver, Teague Says

Pat Host

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

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No Deadline For Enacting RD-180 National Security Waiver, Teague Says

NASA engineers successfully test the Russian-built RD-180 in 1998 at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Ala. Photo: NASA.

There is no deadline for the Defense Department to enact the national security waiver that would allow it to use additional RD-180s in the future, according to a top Air Force official, despite the fiscal year 2016 appropriations season progressing and Air Force enthusiasm for competition in national security space launches.Air Force Director of Space Programs Maj. Gen. Roger Teague told Defense Daily before his panel presentation at the 2015 GEOINT Symposium in Washington that DoD officials are still discussing…

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