How Convergence and Consolidation Underpin Military Space Transformation satellitetoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from satellitetoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By
Theresa Hitchens on December 10, 2020 at 4:41 PM
Will Roper
WASHINGTON: The Air Force hopes to persuade skeptical lawmakers to accept its space acquisition reform plans, promising increased transparency in exchange for more budgetary freedom.
Senior officials are engaging with defense appropriators as they near the end game on the 2021 defense spending bill, Shawn Barnes, deputy assistant secretary for space acquisitions and integration, said today. Both sides of Capitol Hill have stomped on Air Force plans that would, among other reforms, allow broad authority to move money between specific space programs.
“We haven’t yet seen final appropriations. But we certainly have heard from the appropriators that they are concerned about a potential lack of transparency,” he told Via Satellite’s MilSatCom Digital Week conference. “As we think about how to streamline, I’m absolutely committed to ensuring that we provide that transparency to the Hill to both the author