Frank Calvelli, assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisitions and integration, said the U.S. Space Force plans to drive speed by using fixed-price contracts, developing smaller systems and shortening contract timelines to three years or less to accelerate launches, Defense One reported Monday.
“Our competitors seem to have figured out speed. It’s time we do the same,” Calvelli said in an April 5 letter obtained by the publication.
He said the service should advance “program baseline stability,” reduce non-recurring engineering and leverage commercial satellite buses to move faster.
In October, Calvelli released a memo outlining nine “space acquisition tenets” meant to transform the way the service procures space systems.
Some of the tenets mentioned in the memo are building smaller satellites and using existing technology and designs.
