Comments on: Disabled Intel Satellite Restored to Operation by NRO http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/08/disabled_intel_sat.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Thu, 24 May 2012 10:04:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: A. Scott Crawford http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/08/disabled_intel_sat.html/comment-page-1#comment-1717 A. Scott Crawford Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:05:23 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=1864#comment-1717 These wouldn't happen to be the same "industry affiliates" that were responsible for the SV that had to be shot down earlier in the year? If I recall correctly, that SV was 'non-operating' as well. So is this NRO bird part of the same system or launch grouping? Considering that this would make TWO SV's that were non-operating this year alone, perhaps someone should be asking MORE questions of the "industry affiliates" pertaining to the bird that had to be blown out of orbit by the USS Erie, as the chances that the supplier of the defective "black" SV were required to refund the DoD the billions that cloud of floating space dust cost are about 0%. Last. How many MORE non-operating SV's should the DoD expect from it's industry affiliates? When we fall so low as to pat ourselves on the back for fixing an SV without questioning the necessity of doing so in the first place, something is very very rotten in procurement. (Back in the old days, the brass expected it's multi billion dollar black projects to be operational by default!). A. Scott Crawford These wouldn’t happen to be the same “industry affiliates” that were responsible for the SV that had to be shot down earlier in the year? If I recall correctly, that SV was ‘non-operating’ as well. So is this NRO bird part of the same system or launch grouping? Considering that this would make TWO SV’s that were non-operating this year alone, perhaps someone should be asking MORE questions of the “industry affiliates” pertaining to the bird that had to be blown out of orbit by the USS Erie, as the chances that the supplier of the defective “black” SV were required to refund the DoD the billions that cloud of floating space dust cost are about 0%.

Last. How many MORE non-operating SV’s should the DoD expect from it’s industry affiliates? When we fall so low as to pat ourselves on the back for fixing an SV without questioning the necessity of doing so in the first place, something is very very rotten in procurement. (Back in the old days, the brass expected it’s multi billion dollar black projects to be operational by default!).

A. Scott Crawford

]]> By: Steven Dolley http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/08/disabled_intel_sat.html/comment-page-1#comment-1713 Steven Dolley Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:06:57 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=1864#comment-1713 Hasn't there been a dormant DSP or maybe two up there for a while? Hasn’t there been a dormant DSP or maybe two up there for a while?

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