{"id":87513,"date":"2010-02-09T23:50:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/white-house-looks-to-dismantle-npoess-program\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T23:50:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:50:45","slug":"white-house-looks-to-dismantle-npoess-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/white-house-looks-to-dismantle-npoess-program\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Looks to Dismantle NPOESS Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System  (NPOESS) program will be dismantled and split between separate projects  headed by the <strong>U.S. Department of Defense<\/strong> and a  partnership between <strong>NASA<\/strong> and the <strong>U.S. National  Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/strong> (NOAA), the White House <strong>Office  of Science and Technology Policy<\/strong> (OSTP) confirmed Feb. 1.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe new system will resolve this challenge by splitting the  procurements. NOAA and NASA will take primary responsibility for the  afternoon orbit, and [the Pentagon] will take primary responsibility for  the morning orbit. The agencies will continue to partner in those areas  that have been successful in the past, such as a shared ground system,\u201d  the OSTP said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NPOESS, a joint program between the U.S. military and the <strong>U.S.  Department of Commerce<\/strong>, has stalled due to a lack of interest  by the military to continue providing 50 percent of the program\u2019s  funding. The program\u2019s initial estimated cost of $6.5 billion has  doubled due to development problems on NPOESS sensors, causing launch  dates to be postponed by several years, according to the OSTP.<br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lockheed Martin<\/strong> and <strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong>  both have NPOESS contracts that would have to be resolved if the  program was dismantled. The OSTP said that it was still working on the  details of how to conduct the program split.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program will be dismantled and split between separate projects headed by the U.S. Department of Defense and a partnership between NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) confirmed Feb. 1. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe new system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}