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The argument between the Senate with the Congress of Russian: or was it Boeing and SpaceX?…
Alexander Pile, 16 May 2016, 22:28 — REGNUM
Still an interesting document of the national law defense Authorization (NDAA) is an annual statement of actual costs of military construction in the United States.
Unlike the Defense budget, strategies and messages of the President to Congress, each figure is then washed lobbyists for every penny are real and not declared the interest.
Especially touching when pathetic fighters for values just are the very same lobbyists, each of them clearly shows “own” the Corporation.
The Senate Committee on armed services, controlled by Republicans, has introduced the NDAA, the Executive limitation on the purchase of the US the Russian rocket engines for space launch — to engage in fierce public opposition to a congressional Committee on the armed forces, also controlled by Republicans.
The Committee of the upper chamber of the Capitol endorsed version of the fiscal year 2017 for military construction, which would allow the Pentagon to purchase only nine Russian RD-180 engines to meet the needs of the forthcoming launches of satellites in the interests of national security and defense, keeping the restrictions from the NDAA law.
“The United States should not engage in the business of [buying rocket engines of the Russian production] in favor of Vladimir Putin and his cronies and to subsidize the Russian military industrial base, while his country is Crimea, destabilizie Ukraine, bombed the US-backed forces in Syria and provoking the naval forces of the USA”, thundered from the podium Senator John McCain, Chairman of the armed services Committee.
“In his testimony before the Committee, the Minister of defense, the Director of national intelligence and the Secretary of the air force, each confirmed to the Committee that the United States can meet its guaranteed access to the requirements of the space forces without the use of Russian rocket engines…” says a summary of the bill in the version adopted in the Senate.
The Senate version came in direct conflict with the version approved by the Committee on armed services of the house of representatives late last month. Then the Committee of the house of representatives approved a program that would allow the purchase of 18 engines RD-180 Russian-made 2 — twice allowed a plan of defense spending for the current fiscal year.
The Congress proceeded from the fact of a serious backlog of the us satellite constellation of spacecraft able to provide the land (and sea) maintenance and operations in the middle East and in the South China sea. Without the purchase of Russian engines America is losing a crucial support tactics ground operations — satellite support real-time.
Congressmen do not argue with this — just to clarify that technical such a possibility. That’s just economically advantageous to use a Russian RD-180 — at least until the US can develop its own engine of this class for the rocket “Atlas 5”.
Senators agree to fight in a modern war without satellites in any way, and because in its option offer “up to half of the development funds for the development of engine production, the United States must be available to cover any potential increase in launch costs as a result of the ban on Russian rocket engines”.
And here already tossed her head to financial analysts.
At the heart of this question — the fierce competition United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and promptly burst into the market of private military launches SpaceX, owned by Elon musk, which is also increasingly used by the government to launch satellites in the interests of national security.
The fact that ULA, more recently, the monopoly of military launches, is the operator in the use of Russian RD-180 is actually a middleman them with considerable benefit for themselves — to equip the missile launches Atlas 5″. At the same time “allensolly” slowly, thoughtfully, and Oh-so expensive working to develop a new rocket that will use only American parts, including engines.
SpaceX, the only company that also carries out space launches in the interests of national security for the government already does this with the use of rockets, which are based on the American details.
Using Russian RD-180, the heavyweights of the American military-industrial complex of ULA can keep the guys Mask at a safe distance for him — SpaceX is able to offer a price that can compete with the Russians. In the meantime, “allensolly” could spend a long time and tastefully — funds for the development of its engine. That’s why ameri… I mean United Launch Alliance need more, more, more Russian rocket engines.
A double benefit.
Republican Congressman Mike Coffman (of course, by chance, elected from Colorado, where are the main production and research facilities “alanova”) has submitted an amendment to the NDAA in Committee of the house of representatives in April, to double the purchase by the Pentagon that those rockets, which are produced with Russian engines.
Outrageous McCain just accused his colleagues in the intrigues in favour of the ULA and its parent company Boeing, insisting that the missiles Delta IV and Falcon 9,” SpaceX production that use American engines, can run the same cosmic objects national security. And then he was immediately accused of lobbying for Elon musk and the seizure of money for the development of the American analogue of the RD-180 (in the form of compensation for the difference in price triggers) from the pocket of alanova”.
Perhaps for the first time in his career, John McCain heard from colleagues that he works against the American military progress…
In the lobbying game is turned on and the Pentagon is on the side of the Congress, not the Senate.
On the same day, when the house Committee on armed services voted an amendment authorizing a two-fold increase in purchases of RD-180 engines in the next financial year, ash Carter testified before the Subcommittee on appropriations of the Senate that 18 engines necessary to provide enough time to develop fully American engine.
This week will be the procedure of developing a unified project between the NDAA by Congress and the Senate.
Who will win the Senate or Congress (or more precisely — Boeing or Musk), will know by this weekend.
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