https://massispost.com/2019/03/who-are-soross-men-in-armenia/

Recently, the same accusations were leveled when the issue of replacing the rector of Yerevan State University Aram Simonyan was raised again. Simonyan’s defenders are accusing “Soros’s men” in pursuing the goal of destroying the University.

However, this week the names of those who have applied and received grants from the Open Society Foundation’s Armenia branch over the years, were made public. Not only supporters of Pashinyan were on the list, but apparently many anti-Pashinyan politicians and names associated with the former regime were recipients of grants from George Soros’s Foundation. More than one million dollars was granted to the Yerevan State University itself, to implement special educational programs. Many Republican MPs, as well as Robert Kocharyan’s lawyer Hayk Alumyan and others have received funds from the same organization.

The name of George Soros has become a political football in Armenia and is kicked around on every occasion. After the publication of these list, a question arises as who are “George Soros’s men” in Armenia.

Apparently everyone!

https://spacenews.com/air-force-seeks-2-billion-increase-for-space-programs-in-2020-budget/

The biggest beneficiary of the RDT&E boost is the constellation of five missile warning satellites known as the next-generation Overhead Persistent Infrared, or next-gen OPIR, that is being developed by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. The Air Force in 2020 is doubling the funding for missile warning satellites with a request of $1.6 billion — $1.4 billion for RDT&E for next-gen OPIR and about $200 million to continue to procure the existing missile warning satellite constellation known as Space Based Infrared System.

For fiscal year 2019, Congress enacted $703 million for RDT&E for next-gen OPIR and $108 million for SBIRS procurement.

The Air Force had to add more money into the OPIR program as it is trying to compress a nine-year schedule into five years. “The next-gen OPIR will rapidly deliver strategically survivable missile warning that counters adversary advances in missile technology and counter-space systems with added resiliency features,” according to budget documents.

The budget also funds a new ground system for OPIR known as the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution, or FORGE.

The Air Force is requesting $1.7 billion for the GPS 3 program. It is funding the procurement of the first GPS 3F follow-on variant made by Lockheed Martin, the OCX ground system for GPS 3 made by Raytheon and user terminals made by L-3, Collins Aerospace and Raytheon.

The budget also seeks $1.1 billion for satellite communications. That includes a mix of programs: Protected Tactical Satcom, Evolved Strategic Satcom, the recapitalization of the Enhanced Polar System, and funds for on-orbit testing of Advanced EHF communications satellite AEHF-5 and production oversight of AEHF-6. The primary contractors for satcom programs are Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.