
The U.S. Air Force has picked the Virginia-based National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL) non-profit to run the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC)--intended to be an incubator for military space innovations. South Carolina-based Advanced Technology International (ATI) has managed SpEC since its establishment in November 2017, but space prototype demand has grown significantly so SMC decided to recompete the contract under a "SpEC Reloaded" effort and issued a solicitation in March (Defense Daily, Nov. 12). NSTXL will be responsible for overseeing a possible…