Despite an updated cost assessment that forecasts a two-year delay to the launch of the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared System's first Block 0 geosynchronous satellite, the program appears to still be working toward a fiscal year 2025 launch date, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. The watchdog agency's annual weapon systems assessment , released today, indicates that a June 2020 update to the Next-Gen OPIR program's cost assessment, performed by the Air Force Cost Analysis Agency,...
