The Air & Space Brief: Space Force wish list; AF2 plans, scrapped; Supply rockets?; And more...
By Tara Copp
Senior Pentagon Reporter, Defense One
June 7, 2021 12:12 PM ET
Good morning and welcome to Defense One’s Air Force and Space Force newsletter, a weekly look at the events and headlines shaping military aviation and aerospace policy.
Space Force sent its unfunded priorities list to Congress last week. It consists of $831.7 million in projects that did not make the 2022 budget, but that Space Force leaders say are needed to shore up Space Force sites on land and better protect satellites.
Air Force, Space Force team up on rocket-based logistics. The Air Force Research Laboratory announced Friday that it would begin to test the concept of resupplying warzones, and potentially disaster zones, with large rockets that would launch into space and land in the contested area.
No New Air Force Twos. The Air Force scrapped plans to replace the blue-and-white 757 fleet that currently flies the vice president and cabinet members. Boeing had been working on a replacement but funding was removed for the program in the 2022 budget
request.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/06/air-space-brief-space-force-wish-list-af2-plans-scrapped-supply-rockets-and-more/174535/
