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By   Theresa Hitchens on May 07, 2021 at 4:59 PM Acting Air Force Secretary John Roth, left WASHINGTON: Key House lawmakers today pushed the Air Force to move faster, and farther, to reform space acquisition — with both HAC-D Chair Rep. Betty McCollum and Ranking Member Rep. Ken Calvert expressing concern about the slow pace. In particular, lawmakers expressed impatience at the lack of movement toward creation of a new space acquisition czar independent of the Air Force’s assistant secretary for acquisition and integration (a post formerly held by Will Roper; now in an acting role by D...

“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...