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DoD Communities of Interest: Space Subject: RFI National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Program Planning Due Date: Jan 15, 2021, 10:00 am PST Government Organization: Dept of the Air Force Space and Missile Command Description: The U.S. commercial launch industry is vital to providing our Nation’s warfighters and intelligence community with space-based capabilities. Given the rapidly increasing threat from our nation’s adversaries, the United States Space Force (USSF) is focused on ensuring our National space capabilities retain their technological advantage and maintain U.S. superiority in the space domain. To that end, the USSF is considering establishing a Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) program to accelerate the development of transformational commercial space access, mobility, and logistics technologies that can be on-ramped when available. This RDT&E program will play a significant role in the shaping of the next NSSL launch service procurement strategy, which will strive to incentivize and leverage industry innovation. SMC/ECL is requesting information to develop a smart RDT&E strategy that meets existing NSSL requirements and enables future space access, mobility, and logistics capabilities to support agile operations into, through, and from space. SMC/ECL is in the planning stages of this program and is considering RDT&E investments in technologies that can be implemented within the next three to five years and more revolutionary future capabilities that can be realized over the next decade and beyond. *Please see the link below to access the full RFI, which identifies different response due dates for each round of questions (see Section 3). |
RFI National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Program Planning
USSF is considering establishing a Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) program to accelerate the development of transformational commercial space access, mobility, and logistics technologies that can be on-ramped when available. This RDT&E program will play a significant role in the shaping of the next NSSL launch service procurement strategy which will strive to incentivize and leverage industry innovation.