The House Appropriations defense subcommittee wants to kill the Discoverer II satellite program because there is no firm requirement for the platform and development costs could shoot well past $1 billion, according to the panel's fiscal year 2001 defense-spending bill. The subcommittee announced May 11 that it had voted to kill the program. However, the panel's report detailing the rationale for the decision has not been made public. A copy of the subcommittee's report was obtained today by InsideDefense.com ...
