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By   Theresa Hitchens on January 27, 2021 at 4:38 PM Shawn Barnes WASHINGTON: The Air Force has reorganized its space acquisition office into three new directorates, but the critical (and controversial) question of whether a new, independent Space Force assistant secretary post will be established remains unanswered, says Shawn Barnes, who currently serves as the Air Force’s de facto space acquisition lead. Barnes told reporters this morning the reorganization of his current office — which was set in motion under the Trump administration — was given a green light earlier this month. ...

"I will be very curious to see how the Space Force shakes out in the next year or so. It's not going away but how it manifests itself could be different," said Victoria Samson, Washington Office director for Secure World Foundation. By   Theresa Hitchens on December 31, 2020 at 2:49 PM

The Pentagon, headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense. Photo: DOD. President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has spoken with Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, as the incoming Biden administration faces important questions about a future path for military and commercial space capabilities. “I have met with the transition team. I met with them this past week,” Raymond said in a virtual question and answer session with reporters on Dec. 15. “We had a really good conversation. I was happy to chat with them.” Raymond declined to speculate on how the Biden a...