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The Line Between Prudence and Excess

机译:谨慎与过度之间的界限

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A recent congressional critique of the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office's buying habits paints a portrait of an overly risk-averse organization that relies too heavily on industrial-base information provided by its prime contractors to determine how many of a given type of satellite it needs to procure. The result, according to the bipartisan report released by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, or HPSCI, is that the NRO, motivated by an understandable desire to keep key component suppliers in business, winds up buying and launching more satellites than it actually needs, costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. These costs dwarf any per-satellite savings achieved by ordering in bulk, the report said. On its face, the finding that NRO relies on contractors for input on procurement decisions from which they stand to directly benefit seems scandalous. These companies have a clear incentive to suggest that this or that supplier might have to close its doors absent some minimum number of assured satellite orders from the end customer.
机译:最近国会对美国国家侦察局的购买习惯进行的批评描绘了一个过度规避风险的组织的肖像,该组织过于依赖其主要承包商提供的工业基础信息来确定需要采购多少种特定类型的卫星。根据众议院情报专家常设委员会(HPSCI)发布的两党报告,结果是,NRO出于保持关键零部件供应商持续经营的愿望,这是可以理解的,其动机是结束购买和发射超出其实际需要数量的卫星,花费了美国纳税人数十亿美元。报告称,这些成本使批量订购所节省的每颗卫星的成本相形见war。从表面上看,NRO依赖承包商来直接从中受益的采购决策方面的发现似乎是可耻的。这些公司有明确的动机建议这些供应商或该供应商可能必须关门,而最终客户却无法保证一定数量的卫星定单。

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    《Space news》 |2014年第33期|18-18|共1页
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