{"id":5264,"date":"2022-01-19T02:14:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T02:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=5264"},"modified":"2022-01-19T02:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T02:14:52","slug":"federal-budget-stalemate-having-ripple-effects-on-national-security-space-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=5264","title":{"rendered":"Federal budget stalemate having \u2018ripple effects\u2019 on national security space missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If a CR continues, two national security space missions funded in 2022 would have to be pushed into 2023 or beyond<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The longer the U.S. government operates under a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/pentagon-warns-hundreds-of-programs-in-limbo-until-congress-passes-full-year-budget\/\" rel=\"noopener\">continuing resolution<\/a>, the higher the probability that national security space launches will see major delays, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John \u201cJay\u201d Raymond said Jan. 18.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Space Force requested funding for five national security launches in fiscal year 2022. Under a CR, government funding is frozen at the previous year\u2019s levels and the Space Force had funding for three missions in 2021. If lawmakers don\u2019t reach an agreement next month on fiscal 2022 spending and a CR continues, two missions funded in 2022 would have to be pushed into the 2023 budget or beyond, Raymond said at a Mitchell Institute event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we get a budget in February, we would continue with our five launches, but if we enter into a long term CR, we would have to reduce two of those five launches,\u201d said Raymond.<\/p>\n<p><!-- SN_content_ad_728x90 --><\/p>\n<p>The Space Systems Command already has identified which two missions would be removed from the 2022 budget if it came to that, said Raymond, \u201cand they are really important launches for us as we compete to win against Russia and China,\u201d he added. \u201cSo again I cannot stress enough the importance of getting a budget passed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These launch delays would affect both national security launch services providers United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Protracted CRs significantly impact the military\u2019s launch program because missions are procured two years in advance, Raymond said. \u201cA l0ng term CR would have ripple effects, so it\u2019s more than just a one year impact\u201d as missions that would have been procured in 2022 would slip to 2023 or 2024, and 2023 missions could be pushed to 2024 and 2025.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The current CR expires Feb. 18. The House has passed nine of 12 federal spending bills for fiscal 2022 but Senate appropriators have approved only three. And none of these bills have made it to the president\u2019s desk.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/federal-budget-stalemate-having-ripple-effects-on-national-security-space-missions\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a CR continues, two national security space missions funded in 2022 would have to be pushed into 2023 or beyond WASHINGTON \u2014 The longer the U.S. government operates under a continuing resolution, the higher the probability that national security space launches will see major delays, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John \u201cJay\u201d Raymond said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[45],"tags":[16,570,2348,3837,1218,265,1349,3526,3836],"class_list":["post-5264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ripple","tag-budget","tag-effects","tag-federal","tag-missions","tag-national","tag-ripple","tag-security","tag-space","tag-stalemate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/50065947228_9b87ced57d_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5266,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions\/5266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}