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U.S. Air Force Picks New Manager for Space Enterprise Consortium

U.S. Air Force Picks New Manager for Space Enterprise Consortium
United States Space Force Tech. Sgt. Eric Mistrot, the 324th Training Squadron military training instructor, stands in front of his flight during the graduation ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas on Dec. 10. Seven members of the graduating class are the first U.S. Space Force trainees to graduate. About 312 Space Force accessions will graduate from basic military training this fiscal year and will become Space Systems Operations specialists (U.S. Air Force Photo)

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…

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