NPOESS Team Faces The Music
NPOESS is as much as $3 Billion over budget, as many as 3 years away, witnesses say.
– Rep. Sherwood Boehlert
– David Powner, GAO
– Under Secretary of the Air Force Ronald M. Sega
– Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, NOAA Administrator
– Alexis C. Livanos, Northrop Grumman Corporation
– Opening Statement by Rep. Bart Gordon
Science Dems: NPOESS Program Deep in the Red; Congress, American People Owed Answers
“The difference between more money next year and no new money until FY2008 is, according to the Independent Team, a billion dollars. The taxpayer is ill served by limiting options to those that are convenient for this Administration,” added Rep. Gordon at today’s hearing.”
“The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Undersecretary of the Air Force will appear before the House Science Committee tomorrow to explain to Congress the ongoing problems of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).”