It is widely expected that defense and intelligence budgets will flatten out over the next several years, but Guy DuBois believes pockets of growth will remain and that his company is well placed to take advantage. Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems provides software, hardware and engineering support to satellite command-and-control facilities and also for handling, analyzing and distributing the data satellites and other platforms collect. Not only is the U.S. government continuously upgrading its ground infrastructure as new technology becomes available, it is striving toward a one-size-fits-all architecture in which the same ground systems can be used regardless of the type of data or collection platform involved. There also are new satellite programs on the horizon - despite the uncertainty now surrounding the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office's planned Broad Area Space-based Imagery Collector (BASIC) system - many of them in the commercial arena. DuBois says most of his business is in the classified realm, with major customers being the U.S. National Geospatial-In-telligence Agency (NGA) and other intelligence organizations. An economist by training, DuBois logged 26 years with the CIA, including a stint as director of operations and tasking for the National Imagery Satellite Constellation. He spoke recently with Space News Deputy Editor Warren Ferster and staff writer Turner Brinton.
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