This is big news for the space industry ... the Air Force is acting to level the playing field for commercial launchers. Two big events on the same day: the Air Force announced the end of subsidies to the United Launch Alliance (which made their launchers artificially cheap at the taxpayer's expense), and an internal Air Force review released a report saying that the Air Force's recent certification process for SpaceX was artificially difficult (again advantaging the United Launch Alliance).
I'm not sure what motivated the Air Force to act in a sensible manner, but it's surely a welcome development...
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