Acquisition Strategies for Future
Space-Based Optics Follow On
Letter Report
Unclassified Summary
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Committee on Acquisition
Strategies for Future Space-Based
Optics
Intelligence Community Studies
Board
Division on Engineering and
Physical Sciences
Consensus Study Report
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COMMITTEE ON ACQUISITION STRATEGIES FOR FUTURE SPACE-BASED OPTICS
L. ROGER MASON, JR., Peraton, Chair
ROBERT E. ERLANDSON, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
LEE FEINBERG, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
WILLIAM A. JEFFREY, SRI International
LETITIA A. LONG, Independent Consultant
BRIAN A. SHAW, Strategic Analysis, Inc.
Staff
STEVEN DARBES, Program Officer, Study Director
NATHANIEL DEBEVOISE, Research Associate
MICHAEL NILES, Senior Program Officer
MARGUERITE SCHNEIDER, Administrative Coordinator
CHRIS JONES, Senior Financial Business Partner
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY STUDIES BOARD
MARK LOWENTHAL, Intelligence & Security Academy, LLC, Co-Chair
MICHAEL A. MARLETTA (NAS/NAM), University of California, Berkeley, Co-Chair
JESSE BLOOM, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Hutchinson
DEAN CHENG, The Heritage Foundation
HANS R. DAVIES, Toffler Associates
HUBAN A. GOWADIA, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
MARGARET A. HAMBURG (NAM), Nuclear Threat Initiative
STEVEN B. LIPNER (NAE), SAFECode
LAURA A. MCNAMARA, Sandia National Laboratories
CARMEN L. MIDDLETON, The Walt Disney Company
ARTHUR L. MONEY (NAE), Department of Defense
MICHELLE ROZO, In-Q-Tel, Inc.
ANGELA E. STENT, Georgetown University
Staff
CARYN A. LESLIE, Director
DIONNA ALI, Associate Program Officer
BRYAN BUNNELL, Research Associate
NIA JOHNSON. Program Officer
CHRIS JONES, Senior Financial Business Partner
MARGUERITE SCHNEIDER, Administrative Coordinator
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JOHN BROCK, Northrop Grumman Space Technology (retired),
ROBERT H. LATIFF, U.S. Air Force (Major General, retired),
DAVID VAN WIE (NAE), John Hopkins Applies Physics Laboratory, and
DONALD C. WINTER (NAE), Independent Consultant.
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