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This is just the beginning. How DOD is taking its Mission to Space https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/how-dod-is-taking-its-mission-to-space?utm_source=Join+the+Community+Subscribers&utm_campaign=010f6454d2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_09_14_12_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_02cbee778d-010f6454d2-122765993&mc_cid=010f6454d2&mc_eid=b560fb1ddc. SEPTEMBER 14, 2021 | WALTER PINCUS  Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist at The Cipher Brief.  Pincus spent forty years at The Washington P...

“Clearly, this is not what Congress intended,” said one former DoD official. “They wanted one person in charge, and made it the new Assistant Secretary of the Air Force — and even strengthened that position to merge the SAE (legal authority to put things on contract), with a mandate to fix Architecture and Integration.” Response to the re-organization plans from former DoD officials, acquisition experts and sources close to Congress ranged from confusion to frustration to skepticism. Some, for example, said it doesn’t seem to do much more than change the nameplate on the Space a...