Lockheed Martin says that it has completed another Space Radar review—on-schedule—and is headed toward system requirements review. A company release dated June 27 says the Air Force, Intelligence Community, and DOD participated in the integrated baseline review at Lockheed’s Denver facility that culminated in mid-April—yes, April. Meanwhile, the Senate Committee on Select Intelligence thinks it would be a good idea to terminate the Space Radar.
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…