Getting Space Acquisition Right: Steps to Realize Enduring Change : RAND Corporation , January 30 , 2024
Getting Space Acquisition Right: Steps to Realize Enduring Change : RAND Corporation , January 30 , 2024
From the report: “The U.S. Space Force (USSF) faces adversaries who have demonstrated increasingly sophisticated capabilities to deny or degrade U.S. operations in and through the space domain. Assuring mission success in a future warfight means the United States must develop and acquire systems that are resilient to these threats, and it needs to field those systems at a speed that matches that of the evolving threats. But the current space acquisition system is not up to the task.
Traditionally, space system acquisition has operated on long, relatively inflexible life cycles, which is an acceptable approach when designing systems to be resilient to enduring threats. Yet these traditional approaches cannot keep up with a rapidly evolving threat. Motivated by a need for speed, some space programs are pursuing alternative acquisition pathways that, while faster, could come with unidentified risks to mission assurance."
Authors - Barton, Charles, Camm, Frank, Cook, Cynthia R., Denton, Sarah W., Dimarogonas, James, Dolan, Brian, Eusebi, Kelly Elizabeth, Gehlhaus, Diana, Kim, Moon, Kim, Yool, et al.Subjects
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