Space acquisitions
Subtitle: DOD needs a departmentwide strategy for pursuing low-cost, responsive tactical space capabilities : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives
By: United States Government Accountability Office
Contributors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Strategic Forces Subcommittee
Publisher: U.S. Government Accountability Office
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Procurement; Military Astronautics; United States. Department of Defense; United States
Other titles: Space acquisitions :; DOD needs a departmentwide strategy for pursuing low-cost, responsive tactical space capabilities; Department of Defense needs a departmentwide strategy for pursuing low cost, responsive tactical space capabilities
Description: This Government Accountability Office (GAO) report addresses the request to (1) examine the outcomes to date of  Department of Defense's (DOD) TacSat and small, low-cost launch vehicle efforts, (2) identify the challenges in pursuing these efforts, and (3) determine whether experiences with these efforts could inform DOD's major space system acquisitions. GAO recommends that DOD assign accountability for developing and implementing a departmentwide strategy for pursuing low-cost tactical capabilities---both satellite and launch vehicles---and identify corresponding funding. In commenting on the report, DOD agreed with the recommendation.
Notes: Cover title.

"March 2006."

"GAO-06-449."

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available via Internet from the GAO web site (http://www.gao.gov/). Address as of 5/01/06: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06449.pdf; current access available via PURL.