DOD’s FY2024 budget request includes $30 billion for the U.S. Space Force, about $4 billion more than FY2023. The request supports the Space Force’s embrace of profilerated constellations of many small satellites in various low and medium orbits instead of a few large satellites in ...
At a DAF briefing on Monday, Kristyn Jones, acting Under Secretary of the Air Force, and Maj. Gen. Mike Greiner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Budget, laid out some of the details. Jones said the Space Force request includes $4.7 billion for a proliferated multi-orbit m...
The Space Force is seeking to continue efforts to bolster space resiliency in its $24.5 billion budget request, funneling an additional $1 billion toward a proliferated, disaggregated, multi-orbit architecture for missile warning in fiscal year 2023. Following the addition for resilient missile ...
The Pentagon’s need to build and protect orbital capability hasboostedthe Space Force’s budget in each of its four years—but that will stop in fiscal 2025, for which the service is requesting $29.4 billion, down $0.6 billion from last year. The decrease means that the Space Force isn’...
The Space Force is seeking $15.4 billion in fiscal 2021 for its first full year of operations, up from $40 million in seed money allotted by Congress in 2020. The fledgling service was created under the Department of the Air Force in December by the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization...
Monday, June 24, 2024 The little rocket that could: Thor in the early days at Vandenberg (part 1) The Thor missile turned into a workhorse launch vehicle for the Air Force in the early years of the space program, evolving into the Delta. Dwayne Day describes those initial operations of ...
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Force budget under the White House's request to Congress would sink slightly in 2010, from $161.4 billion to $160.5 billion, funding for the service's space programs would rise by 3 percent, to $11.1 billion.rnRecent events have highlighted the Air Force's need for better space situational...
The 2020 budget seeks funds to establish the U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. Details of the Pentagon's space funding request will be released on Tuesday. SpaceNews previously reported that the administration will request $72 million to stand up the Space Force headq...
It also seeks $20 million to begin the construction of a space control facility for the Air National Guard at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Big-ticket items in the Space Force budget: Missile warning satellites –The RDT&E request includes $2.3 billion for the next-generation overhead ...