The Air Force has just begun to develop its acquisition strategy for its new weather satellite program and expects to have a plan in place by year's end. The service requested $35 million in its fiscal year 2015 budget to kick-start development of the Weather Satellite Follow-on (WSF) -- a one-satellite constellation that will replace capabilities now provided by the service's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program as well as the Naval Research Laboratory's WindSat technology demonstrator. Beyond those two programs, the...
