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Senate Appropriators Criticize Air Force Handling Of DMSP, Provides For Extra EELV Launch

Pat Host

Friday, July 18th, 2014

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Senate Appropriators Criticize Air Force Handling Of DMSP, Provides For Extra EELV Launch

Lockheed Martin employees work on DMSP-19 during final integration at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

Senate appropriators criticized the Air Force’s handling of its Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), directing it to reassess its plan for the final space vehicle while recommending that $57 million less than the service requested in the fiscal year 2015 budget request be provided. The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC), in a draft copy of its FY ’15 report, was not happy the Air Force planned to spend $425 million to store DMSP-20 until 2020, a cost it called “excessive” for…

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