Only a few months after Deborah Lee James took office as the 23rd Air Force secretary, Russia's bold annexation of Crimea last year sent the national security space community into a tailspin in the U.S. James, the Pentagon's executive agent for space, is now working to fend off restrictions from Congress on using the workhorse RD-180 engine for the Atlas V rocket while trying to create a competition between the United Launch Alliance-a government-funded monopoly-and commercial launch provider SpaceX. James talked with Senior Pentagon Editor Amy Butler in her Pentagon office about creating an apples-to-apples comparison of these dissimilar competitors, embracing public-private partnerships for a new rocket engine and developing trust with new launch entrants.
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机译：在黛博拉·李·詹姆斯（Deborah Lee James）担任美国空军第23任部长后仅几个月，俄罗斯去年对克里米亚的大胆吞并使美国国家安全航天界陷入了混乱，五角大楼的太空执行特工詹姆斯（James）现在正在努力抵御取消了国会对在Atlas V火箭上使用主力RD-180发动机的限制，同时试图在美国政府资助的联合发射联盟与商业发射提供商SpaceX之间进行竞争。詹姆斯在五角大楼办公室与五角大楼高级编辑艾米·巴特勒（Amy Butler）进行了交谈，讨论了如何将这些不同的竞争对手进行一次苹果对苹果的比较，拥抱公私合作伙伴关系以购买新的火箭发动机以及与新的进入者建立信任。
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