Options for Modernizing Military Weather Satellites: Working Paper 2012-11

Michael Bennett

No 43641, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: Over the next several years, the Department of Defense (DoD) will launch the last of its weather satellites, which it uses to plan military operations and generate weather forecasts. Long-running efforts to develop replacements for those satellites encountered schedule and cost difficulties, and in December 2011, the Congress directed DoD to cancel its latest program and to prepare for a follow-on program. DoD’s plans now call for a new development effort, but it has not yet determined the capabilities it wants in that satellite. In this paper, the Congressional Budget

Date: 2012-09-20
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