
The U.S. government must look at adopting commercial sector manufacturing practices to quickly build and field a more proliferated network of sensors in space, Mike Griffin, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said Dec. 3. Speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s event “Launch: the Space Economy” Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Griffin said the national security community has “an overwhelming need” to modernize its development, manufacturing and deployment practices for future space assets, and encouraged government partners to examine…