HASC Chair Seeks Increased Space Launch Competition, Smaller Space Force With NDAA Proposal

摘要

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) proposal for the next defense authorization bill looks to push the Air Force toward increasing competition for its space launch program, with plans to also debate an amendment at this week’s mark-up on a “less bureaucratic, more costeffective” version of the administration’s proposed Space Force. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the HASC chairman, told reporters Monday at a Defense Writers Group breakfast a Space Force amendment will be brought up during Wednesday’s markup after specific language establishing the new military branch didn’t make it into the committee’s final proposal for the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.