COLORADO SPRINGS — The Department of the Air Force (DAF) has launched a competition for satellites that can track airborne targets, according to Secretary Troy Meink, rebuffing skepticism over whether the technology known as airborne moving target indication (AMTI) is ready for prime time.
“We’ve awarded the base contract for the new space-based airborne moving target indication capability, and are competing a contract for the first operational increment,” Meink said during a keynote address at the Space Symposium conference here.
In a later briefing with reporters, Meink explained that the AMTI program consists of an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract issued to “multiple vendors” to kick off “development activities.” The Department of…
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