While we in the U.S. space industry may have different roles, we do share the same ultimate goals - protecting our national security and working to deliver exquisite capabilities for the country. We not only share the same goals, we share the same resource constraints and the same need to develop creative ideas to continue modernizing at affordable cost. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta summed it up with his mandate: Control costs, look at alternative architectures, evaluate commercial and international partnership opportunities - and do it quickly. We need to do all this without jeopardizing user satisfaction while we look for ways to evolve current systems to address the challenges ahead.
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