Space

X-30 Nasp Programme Management Restructure

The United States’ X-30 National Aerospace Plane programme is progressing in spite of a major revision of its management structure. The NASP project had been under the control of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) until April this year, when control of the project was passed to the USAF. This was done to provide closer coupling of the technology development phase to the actual fabrication and test of the vehicle. The original joint project office at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, has been retained although the Washington programme office was abolished.

Industry sources in the US indicated that this reshuffle raised some concern with the private contractors involved in the project, many of whom are sinking money into the project at a rate well beyond that of the government. A further complication was introduced by the need to renegotiate the existing memorandum of understanding on the NASP with NASA and resolve the relationship between the USAF and Department of Defence. As a DoD sponsored programme, the NASP could have more stable funding and become less vulnerable to the inevitable annual interservice battle for slices of the DoD’s monetary pie.

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