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In Response to House Cost Concerns with NSSL, Acquisition Office Says Launch Represents Just 13 Percent of Total R&D and Procurement Budgets

In Response to House Cost Concerns with NSSL, Acquisition Office Says Launch Represents Just 13 Percent of Total R&D and Procurement Budgets
An Atlas V carrying the USSF-7 mission to space lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, May 17. The mission marks marked the 80th mission for the National Security Space Launch program. (United Launch Alliance Photo)

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…

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