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DSB report on milspace, FIA
I had a chance to drop a question into Vernon Loeb's online session
today, and he answered thus: http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp...iest091003.htm Harlingen, Tex.: Any comments about the recent Defense Science Board report on acquisition of national security space systems? It seems to confirm, among other things, that the Future Imagery Architecture (FIA) is having considerable problems. The present imagers, particularly the three LACROSSE/ONYX radar satellites, are getting somewhat long in the tooth. So the possibility seems real that the US faces a considerable period of decreased capability in the important area of all-weather, day/night satellite imagery. Vernon Loeb: The problems with Future Imagery Architecture is one of the great failures of the intelligence community over the past decade. The cost overrruns for righting the program to build the nation's next generation spy satellites are enormous -- I'm told perhaps the largest ever in the history of defense programs. And the implications--that America could find itself without a space imagining capability, a capability it has held a virtual global monpoly on for 50 years--are even greater still. But because this program is secret, the American people will basically never know anything about it, except in its broadest outlines. Unlike the 911 attacks, this is one people really should be held accountable for. That "perhaps the largest [cost overrun] ever in the history of defense programs" is pretty impressive. Anybody know what the present record-holder is? |
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