A highly informative article has been posted at SpaceNews entitled "Space reforms coming: 2018 NDAA drops legislative bombshells on U.S. Air Force."

In the article by Sandra Erwin, the U.S. Air Force is blasted by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as a "broken national security space enterprise." Military space management for the most part, will now be handled by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, with the House of Representatives insisting that the NDAA being a move toward "fundamental reform of national security space."

Air Force Space Command is the focal point for a "space service" and will have the authority to organize, train and equip all U.S. Air Force space forces, with the commander of this military component being authorized for a six year command.

Within this feature, Todd Harrison, an aerospace industry analyst, that the NDAA seems to be laying the groundwork for a separate national security space department at some point in the future.

To read this entire SpaceNews feature, please access this direct link...

A second SpaceNews article for reading would be "Air Force 'hopeful' Congress will support new strategy to phase out Russian rocket engines," and this feature may be accessed at this direct link...