The Pentagon is making optimistic assumptions, especially regarding congressional support, in its five-year plan for a U.S. Space Force (USSF), according to sources on Capitol Hill and in industry.

The U.S. Air Force will begin accepting Boeing KC-46As later this month and the company’s senior leadership is “embarrassed” by the program's foreign object debris problem, according to the service's acquisition chief.

Raytheon is leading a consortium of tech firms to modernize the U.S. Air Force Space Defense Operations Center (Spadoc) that tracks and monitors space debris.