Space Situational Awareness: Status of Efforts and Planned Budgets

Abstract

In a report accompanying a bill for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015,the Senate Armed Services Committee included a provision for GAO to estimate the cost of SSA efforts over the next five fiscal years.1 This report formally transmits updated information we provided in a briefing to the committee on July 8, 2015, to meet our reporting requirement. We have updated the briefing to reflect current data on SSA workloads and to incorporate additional agency technical comments that we received since that time. See enclosure I: Space Situational Awareness Efforts and Planned Budgets Information Presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee. This report addresses the following: (1) What are the governments current and planned SSA-related research and development, procurement, and operations efforts? (2)What is the planned budget for these efforts for fiscal years 2015 through 2020?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 08, 2015
Accession Number
AD1174733

Entities

People

  • Cristina Chaplain

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detectors
  • District Of Columbia
  • Early Warning Systems
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Ground Based
  • National Security
  • Phased Array Radar
  • Radar
  • Sensor Networks
  • Situational Awareness
  • Space Objects
  • Space Operations
  • Space Situational Awareness
  • Space Surveillance
  • Space Systems
  • Space Weather
  • Surveillance
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects