NOAA Budget Passback Includes Additional Money for Satellites

摘要

The White House's budget office has added $87 million to the $428.8 million the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) planned to request for.the troubled National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) for 2011.rnThe NPOESS weather satellite program has encountered massive cost growth and schedule slips in recent years, and an independent review panel concluded in the spring that the program is hobbled by ineffective management structure and needs a near-term infusion of cash to succeed. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy assembled a task force in the summer to make changes to get the program back on track.