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Senior Defense Department officials are reviewing a report on reforming space acquisitions, according to U.S. Space Force Vice Commander Lt. Gen. David Thompson, who added the report could be sent to Congress in the near future.

“It’s in the final stages of review with the department. The department will in the very near term submit it to Congress,” Thompson said in a Space News virtual event April 23.

When Congress created the Space Force in December, it was largely agnostic about how acquisitions should be reformed under the new, sixth service branch of the military.

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