I just learned about this through APOD.
Apparently, the NRO has a couple of space-rated telescopes that they no longer need. They are Hubble-sized optics, 2.4 m primaries, but with a shorter and thus wider field of view. The NRO seems to have decided to change designs, so they had 2 spare telescopes that were built still in storage. They offered them up to NASA.
NASA is evaluating them for use. The upside is free hardware. The downside is that there is no funding in this year’s budget (nor likely in next year’s) for any project.
In theory, these telescopes are ideal for supplementing James Webb by looking at IR wavelengths that Webb won’t. There’s been a proposed WFIRST mission to fly a smaller mirrored telescope, so this would not only work for WFIRST, but actually be a better telescope.
The other downside is this is just the optics and structure, no vehicle, no cameras, no instruments, no spacecraft. So it would still be expensive to outfit into a useable space telescope.
Anybody else hear about this? Find it interesting?
I tried reading through the .pdf of the science committee evaluating the technical merits, but much of that was jibberish to me. Way too technical, couldn’t understand much of what they were saying. The executive summary was about all that made sense. 
Oh, don’t bother with the first link “abuzz”. It is just a picture of a kitten whispering to a dog.