COLORADO SPRINGS — The Department of the Air Force is seeking lawmakers’ blessing to award multi-year deals for aircraft and satellites, according to Secretary Troy Meink, expanding the Pentagon’s push to ramp up production for key weapons systems.
Speaking Wednesday during a briefing with reporters at the Space Symposium conference here, Meink said Pentagon officials are “working with the Hill to help get that authority [for multi-year procurement] across the board, not only with munitions, but actually with the production of aircraft, with the production of spacecraft. And I think we’ve gotten really good support from the Hill on this.”
Particularly when it comes to spacecraft, “you can buy the first two [development satellites], then you buy them kind…
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