Maj. Gen. Roger Lempke, Nebraska’s adjutant general and president of the Adjutants General Association of the United States, has turned up the heat again in the ANG-USAF spat. Lempke’s latest move came courtesy of an op-ed in the USA Today, wherein he claims that recent Air Force decisions regarding missions, units, and bases could “permanently disable” the Air Guard. The disruption caused by unit movements, he avers, could lead 70 percent of Air Guardsmen to leave the force. No public reply from the Air Force yet. The service believes, however, that there won’t be any mass walkouts.
SDA’s Next Phase of Data Transport Satellites on Hold
June 30, 2025
The long-term future of one of the Space Development Agency’s two satellite constellations is on hold as officials study the options for replacing a planned “data transport layer” with one or more commercial solutions. President Trump’s proposed 2026 defense budget...