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Back to the Future: Returning U.S. Space Acquisition to Glory

Back to the Future: Returning U.S. Space Acquisition to Glory

Malin, Daniel R.

Paperback

Business GeneralArmed ForcesAstronomy & Space

ISBN10: 128827422X
ISBN13: 9781288274222
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Published: Nov 9 2012
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The space acquisition community has suffered through a series of high-visibility setbacks that have cast doubt on the U.S. defense establishment's ability to procure space systems. The USAF has endured through an $8B overrun and 6 year delay with its Space-based Infrared System. The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, partnered with the USAF and NASA, has suffered through a $4B overrun and more than a year launch delay with its National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System. Even the traditionally efficient National Reconnaissance Office has experienced a highly publicized multibillion dollar overrun and several year launch delay with its Future Imaging Architecture. This trend of delays and overruns has unfortunately become the norm rather than the exception for U.S. space acquisition. To help reverse the current trend, program managers should study successful programs of the past in search of techniques that may still be relevant today. George Bernard Shaw, the famous Irish playwright, said, We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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