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fork(2) [soylentnews.org] writes:

      Less than a week after reporting that the Operational Control Segment system (OCX) achieved a Nunn-McCurdy breach (SN [soylentnews.org] July 02), the Air Force has requested another $39M "to address deficiencies found during testing of the system earlier this year."

      SpaceNews.com [spacenews.com] reports:

[...]Part of the money, the Pentagon said, would go to Raytheon, OCX's prime contractor, to add staff to solve the problems.

      Without the additional $39 million, OCX would be delayed an additional four months and cost $90 million more to complete, the Pentagon said. Already, the program is not expected to be complete until 2021 at the earliest.

      Interestingly, as the above SN article said, "the Air Force said in a June 30 press release that Raytheon has received none of the potential $43.9 million incentive fee payments. Remaining incentives fees are being restructures,[sic] the service said."

      The SpaceNews article goes on to say:

In addition, the Air Force asked for another $30 million to support "test and experimentation environments" for the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center, or JICSpOC, located at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

      The JICSpOC is conducting ongoing experiments, sometimes by moving live satellites, to play out how the Defense Department and intelligence community would act during a war in space.

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