According to Reuters news service, the Pentagon plans to cancel a planned Boeing-built sensor for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System in a restructuring effort to save the greatly over-budget program. The GAO told lawmakers last week in a written statement covering a range of space program problems that the Pentagon was “considering dropping some of its planned capability because of technology and design-related challenges.” According to Reuters, the plan now would be to compete a “less complex sensor package.”
The Air Force’s Experimental Operations Unit hosted a change of command ceremony recently, another sign of how the CCA concept is maturing and becoming entrenched in the Air Force’s structure, to the point where exercises have generated multiple sorties in a single day to simulate high-tempo combat operations.