U.S. Senate Spending Bill Calls for Cancellation of Defense Weather Satellite System

摘要

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems' bid to build the next generation of U.S. military weather satellites was dealt a setback Sept. 15 when the Senate Appropriations Committee called for the cancellation of the Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS).The DWSS program was initiated last year in the wake of a White House decision to dismantle the troubled National Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and establish separate programs formilitary and civilian weather needs. Northrop Grumman, the NPOESS prime contractor, was given a f 429.9 million Air Force contract in May to get started on DWSS. Northrop also retained an oversight role on the Joint Polar Satellite System, the civilian counterpart to DWSS.