The unending woes of the over-budget, under-performing, behind-schedule National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) may have been inevitable even before the program began, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) indicated. Not one or two, but three agencies, are running the NPOESS program, and that guarantees that too many people are involved in every decision, Bartlett said at an hours-long hearing of the House Science and Technology Committee energy and environment subcommittee to probe the latest glitches in the NPOESS program. (Please…
Bartlett Hits Multi-Agency Setup For Delaying NPOESS; He Says System Rewards Contractors For Cost Overruns
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