Air Force Space Command has deactivated the Air Force Space Battlelab at Schriever AFB, Colo., after 10 years of operation. The space battlelab, as with the seven other Air Force battlelabs, fell prey to the service’s money woes. All seven were to close this fall. SSgt. Don Branum reports that the Space Innovation and Development Center at Schriever will pick up seven of the currently active 14 projects begun in the space battlelab.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall doesn’t see great value in trying to break the Sentinel ICBM program off as a separate budget item the way the Navy has with its ballistic-missile submarine program, saying such a move wouldn’t create any new money for the Air Force to spend on other…