What is the status of the Future Imagery Architecture (FIA) program?
We still haven’t recovered from the FIA disaster yet. We took emergency action to restart a production line but are still struggling with the path for the future. The work that was awarded to Lockheed Martin is going well, but that was a near-term palliative. What comes after is still to be determined. The work that has remained at Boeing has been problematic. I think we have it under control at this point, but the problems have been further evidence that the team wasn’t qualified to do that job, and it’s taken them an awfully long time to climb the domain-knowledge hill. The U.S. Air Force’s approach on the Transformational Satellite (T-Sat) Communications System has been to spend large sums of money on technical risk reduction prior to the prime contract award. Is this an appropriate model for intelligence programs? It may make sense on some classes of space programs. In the case of T-Sat, it didn’t hurt because with the other new satellite communications systems coming on line over
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