The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin “more than $50 million” on March 3 for a contract to perform launch and range operations on the East and West Coast, mission integration, systems engineering and program management, subcontract work, factory support engineering, and special studies—everything short of the launch itself. That comes in a separate contract, according to Florida Today, which noted that the exact amount of this contract is under wraps until USAF reaches a similar agreement with Boeing.
After years of describing to lawmakers and Pentagon leaders the nature of that threat and the key role spacepower plays in deterring conflict in the domain and enabling the rest of the joint force, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters during AFA’s Warfare Symposium here that the message appears to…