Rep. Ellen Tauscher, in her meeting with reporters (see above), delivered a ringing vote of confidence for the current Secretary of the Air Force, Michael Wynne. “By the way, I think we’re very lucky to have somebody like Secretary Wynne, who has a tremendous pedigree in acquisition in that job right now,” said Tauscher. “I just wish we were giving him more money to do more.”
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.