Pentagon Officials Concerned About Space Sector Spending Bow Wave

By Courtney Albon / August 7, 2014 at 9:48 PM
With several ongoing program and mission-area analyses in process and not enough near-term funding to dedicate to sweeping architecture changes, the space sector may fall victim to the spending bow wave that Pentagon leaders warn will hit the department in the 2020s if sequestration and other budget cuts continue to push new investments to the right. Air Force Col. Scott Conner told an audience at an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association conference on Aug. 5, that he and others...

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