House and Senate at Odds Over SBIRS Follow-On System

摘要

Congressional appropriators are in lock-step with the U.S. Air Force on most of the Pentagon's unclassified military space programs in the 2010 budget request, but the Senate and House of Representatives have differing views on whether to ramp up a next-generation missile warning satellite program amid continued difficulties with the system now in development.rnAt the same time, lawmakers remain concerned about the U.S. Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), whose recently disclosed one-year delay likely will result in a gap in the service's so-called narrowband satellite communications capacity.