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USAF May Recompete Software Applications for STRATCOM System

USAF May Recompete Software Applications for STRATCOM System
U.S. Air Force Gen. Anthony Cotton, head of U.S. Strategic Command, recently visited Ellsworth AFB, S.D.'s 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron on its deployment to Andersen AFB, Guam in support of Bomber Task Force 24-6 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Over the next three years, the U.S. Air Force plans to recompete some software application contracts for U.S. Strategic Command's (STRATCOM) future Strategic Mission Planning and Execution System (SMPES). The latter is to use flexible funding--so-called "colorless" money--that the Air Force may shift between research and development and procurement accounts, for example. The Aerospace Industries Association has advocated a similar, flexible funding approach for DoD's Joint All Domain Command and Control architecture. SMPES is a follow-on to Increment 5 of…

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