U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski

摘要

On Aug. 1, the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) issued a long-awaited final request for proposals for a program designed to institutionalize the use of excess payload capacity aboard commercial satellites for military and other U.S. government missions. The Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) contract is an indefinite-quantity, indefinite-delivery contracting vehicle intended to create a stable of companies qualified to provide hosted payload services to the Air Force. The idea is to reduce the number of bureaucratic and technical hoops the service must jump through to rent space aboard commercial satellites.