The world market for launching satellites increased dramatically during the Preliminary Engineering and Manufacturing Development Phase of the United States Government's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle procurement program. This coinided with the U.S. Government's increased emphasis on acquisition reform - insight versus oversight. These events brought about the following issues: centre dot Development funds could only support a single design for both government and commercial customers, centre dot Government and commercial requirements needed to be merged, centre dot The government needed assurance that its requirements wourld be preserved, and centre dot Government insight requirements had to be satisfied.
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