In response to House appropriators' concerns that the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program represents 40 percent of the U.S. Space Force's $2.5 billion procurement budget request, the office of Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper says that NSSL has achieved significant savings and that NSSL represents just 13 percent of total research and development and procurement costs across unclassified and classified space programs. The Space Force, the sixth military service established last December, does not yet have its own…
