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SMC Chief: Satellite And Terminal Availabilities Not Critically Out of Sync

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By B.C. Kessner The executive director of Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile System Center (SMC) said the vagaries of very ambitious satellite and terminal programs caused end dates to get out of step, but not severely enough to impact the overall lengthy process from launch to operational capability. "In the case of AEHF, we put both the AEHF satellite...and FAB-T on contract...within months of one another," Doug Loverro, SMC executive director, said Thursday at the third annual U.…

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