Increasing the Solvency of Spacepower

<p>A new approach to spacepower acquisition is essential to ensure America's continuing advantage in space. The United States must create better options to guarantee that its political leaders and military commanders can continue to depend on military spacepower and that it remains a continuing competitive advantage for America. At the center of a new space acquisition strategy advocated in this thesis is the creation of a spacepower system development and demonstration phase similar to other DOD acquisition cycles. Military spacepower continues to enhance the elements and instruments of US national power and increases the effectiveness of military forces. The useful operational lives of the spacecraft that currently provide these benefits however are rapidly running out. Each DOD spacecraft constellation is currently in transition and the Air Force is attempting to recapitalize every space mission area near simultaneously. These recapitalization efforts have been fraught with technical problems delays and significant cost overruns.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>