Less than a week after the U.S. Air Force unveiled a 2015 budget request that senior officers hailed as a step toward a new military space architecture known as disaggregation, government officials raised doubts about the approach, with one suggesting it might not save money and questioning whether the Air Force has the funds to even try it out. "There isn't much money to enhance constellations, much less change architectures," said Steven Miller, director of advanced systems cost analysis in the U.S. defense secretary's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Office. Miller was speaking during a panel discussion at the Satellite 2014 conference here that was focused on two related elements of the disaggregation strategy: increased dependence on commercial satellites, and use of those satellites to host dedicated military payloads.
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