As the five step North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defence Planning Process (NDPP) wends its way over the next year to assigning quantitative space system targets to the alliance's 32 countries, policymakers may consider having dedicated NATO satellites. The five steps in the four-year NDPP are the establishment of political guidance; requirements determination; the assignment by NATO's Allied Command Transformation (ACT) of requirements' targets for each country; continuous aid from NATO to meet those targets; and NATO's survey analysis of…
