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Theresa Hitchens on December 14, 2020 at 2:15 PM
SpaceX’s Starship already is being eyed by TRANSCOM for point-to-point transport.
WASHINGTON: The Air Force is pushing out a rash of new initiatives to harvest cutting-edge commercial tech, including an effort to kick open new markets for next-generation space systems.
The ‘Space Prime’ effort is being modeled on the service’s high-profile Agility Prime project to ‘prime the pump’ for commercial use of ‘flying cars’ electronic vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles as a way for the military to then leverage both the technology and cost savings. Space was chosen as the next investment arena for the Prime program during last week’s Accelerate virtual event sponsored by the Air Force innovation hub AFWERX.
The contradictions and the flaws in this report are so blatant that I think it s a pretty weak reed to lean on.given the fact that [the Trump administration] basically were just doing Obama s shipbuilding plan up until this point, says Rep. Joe Courtney
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Paul McLeary on December 10, 2020 at 4:45 PM