Publication
Jul 2011
Networks of satellites, ground-based sensors and unmanned aerial vehicles – the assets America uses to monitor and understand environmental change and its consequences – are going dark. By 2016, only seven of NASA’s current 13 earth monitoring satellites are expected to be operational, leaving a crucial information gap that will hinder national security planning. Meanwhile, efforts to prevent this capability gap have been plagued by budget cuts, launch failures, technical deficiencies, chronic delays and poor interagency coordination.
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Author | Christine Parthemore, Will Rogers |
Series | CNAS Policy Briefs |
Publisher | Center for a New American Security (CNAS) |
Copyright | © 2011 Center for a New American Security (CNAS) |