Missile Warning Sats To Be Early Subject of USAF Reform Initiative

摘要

The U.S. Air Force's future missile warning satellite constellation will be among the first programs to be subjected to a service-wide acquisition reform initiative that will closely engage industry to help find the most favorable trade-offs between cost and capability, a senior service official said. The idea is to identify relatively small compromises on system requirements that can yield big savings, Deborah Lee James, the Air Force secretary, said Jan. 14.