HASC Chairman Critiques the Armed Services
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By Shak Hill
April 27, 2019
As the head of the House Armed Services Committee, it's the Chairman's responsibility to ensure efficiency with America's military. But that's a tough job rife with judgment calls. On March 29, 2019, Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) may have made the wrong one. The Chairman took it upon himself to write a letter to the Heather Wilson, the Secretary of the Air Force, criticizing the Air Force’s flagship aerospace program: The National Security Space Launch.
The Air Force’s National Security Space Launch (NSSL) is a program established to build out America’s space launch capacities by developing U.S. propulsion systems to be used for national security payloads. The primary goal of the NSSL is to replace the United States’ use of foreign rockets with reliable American alternatives. And so far, the program has been impressively successful.
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