For some reason, Air Forces Central never posted on its Web site the airpower statistics for Aug. 7. When prompted, AFCENT provided the stats, so we have added a sorties table for Aug. 7 to our Aug. 12 Daily Report column that included the stats for Aug. 8 and 9. We also revised the year-to-date numbers for all subsequent sortie tables to bring us up to date.
Weeks after canceling one major satellite communications program, the Space Force took early steps in the development of another July 29, announcing contracts for five companies to showcase how their commercial designs can meet the military’s requirements