GAO recommends better information-sharing to improve hosted satellite payload use

By Courtney Albon / July 30, 2018 at 5:18 PM
The Government Accountability Office said in a recent report the Defense Department isn't utilizing commercially hosted satellite payloads as well as it could, due in part to a lack of information-sharing among programs that have used hosted payloads in the past and who could benefit from using them for future missions. The July 30 GAO report found that while the Pentagon has seen significant cost savings on past programs that have hosted government payloads on commercially owned satellites, the service...

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