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Space Force
As the Defense Department works more closely with the commercial space industry for quicker, cheaper, and easier launches, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, is working with industry, academia, and government to increase the ability of these organizations to launch from the base. Vandenberg will establish ...
Through its first year of existence, the U.S. Space Force was focused on developing the overall structure by which the entirely new service would be organized. Now, as it heads into Year 2, the force will seek to “actually operationalize” that new structure, Col. Matthew ...
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The Air Force wants another dozen F-15EXs as part of its $4.2 billion unfunded priorities list it submitted to Congress this week, but the service is not asking for any additional F-35A strike fighters. The Space Force sent a separate request to the Hill, but ...
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The Space Force is asking for $17.4 billion in its 2022 budget request—more than 10 percent of the Department of the Air Force's $173.7 billion "blue" budget and a $2 billion increase from 2021. The request would grow the service to 8,400 Guardians, pay to ...
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona), a retired Navy pilot who flew or commanded four space shuttle missions and is a member of the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces, said that by sharing information about potential collisions in orbit, even with adversaries, "there's also a ...
As Airmen prepare for the return of physical fitness tests July 1, the Air Force released updated scoring charts May 26 to reflect the changes to those tests. As previously announced, PT tests will no longer include the controversial waist measurement as a scored component, ...