Looks like two major Pentagon satellite programs are facing real trouble on the Hill: Asked about the Transformational Communications Satellite (TSAT) and Space-Based Radar (SBR) programs, Lockheed Martin CEO Vance Coffman told Defense News that “the question will be, how soon can you get the funding behind them? I/’m not betting on a time frame.” …
How many Chinese nuclear weapons?
by | 2004-03-07 | No Comments
Today, I am working on the dissertation chapter about Chinese nuclear deployments. Recent reports by the Council on Foreign Relations, National Resources Defense Council and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (subscription) all describe the People’s Republic of China as the world’s third largest nuclear power, ahead of the British and French, with 400 or …
Cooperative Satellite Tracking and Low Observable Satellites
by | 2004-03-05 | No Comments
I’ve just finished a paper for the ISA Conference in Montreal suggesting that we should support (and probably expand) Air Force Space Command proposals to provide satellite tracking data and analytic support to foreign and commercial entities. If we don/’t provide the data necessary to manage orbital traffic, others eventual will – much as Europe …
Iraqi WMD (or lack thereof)
by | 2004-03-04 | No Comments
Former Iraq Survey Group head David Kay testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that “we were almost all wrong” about Iraq. He had earlier explained that the U.S. intelligence community was fooled by the “vortex of corruption” in Iraq that also duped Saddam. Iraqi WMD efforts, according to Kay, were “largely subsumed into corrupt …
