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The committee will identify and consider potential partners -- public and pri vate -- for developing such a system or major subsystems, taking into account factors such as: • What national missions might benefit in a substantial way from access to a small satellite data collection system and how might that mission depend on the frequency and geographic scope of the data collection? Those benefits might be defined broadly to include military, economic, scientific, educational, and environ mental benefits.
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. Its second goal was to determine current challenges and future opportunities for redefining space infrastructure in order to become more amenable to sustainable partnerships together with identifying acquisition methods capable of serving multiple stakeholders.
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By reimagining, creating, and continuously improving SmallSat space technology, a new and growing space ecosystem is now in place that is capable of serving a broad stakeholder community of both traditional users and new or nontraditional users. For the purposes of this report, traditional users primarily entail government departments and agencies with missions that support intelligence, defense, and civil space that were generally confined to large spacecraft developed by government contractors employing expensive but proven development methods.
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As discussed in Chapter 3, HSA is a multi-layer system architecture offering the flexibility to integrate capabilities from multiple commercial and government systems to meet a variety of differing and constantly evolving government user needs. While still at an early stage, it has started delivering cost-effective and resilient space capabilities in support of a broad array of national security missions, including science and technology (S&T)
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Standards and best practices could be developed within organizations such as the Air Force Research Laboratory's AFWERX, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute, and the Small Payload Rideshare Association to facilitate the adoption of New Space business product capabilities. CONCLUSION: A coordinated government effort to promote and oversee existing government programs, together with the exploitation of dual-use technologies (evolving out of the automotive, medical, gaming, and other industries)
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RECOMMENDATION: U.S. government procurement mechanisms should be tailored to embrace evolving commercial practices and appropriate standards to address and accelerate decision speed, management of mission risk, and alignment of incentives to rapidly enable government space initiatives.
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government space community's current and potential future exploitation of that infrastructure is impeded by lack of familiarity with existing technical capabilities as well as new capabilities evolving out of the rapid growth of the commercial space industry. In the case of the Office of Naval Research, space science procurement practices are artificially constrained by traditional approaches in ways that limit them from taking full advantage of available New Space opportunities related to the rapid demonstration of the ocean and coastal sensor technologies under development for the National Oceanographic Partnership Program.
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Engage nascent commercial broker capabilities to explore and form appropriate partnerships to match existing and emerging commercial capabilities to achieve desired technical outcomes; 2. Explore existing government programs and consortiums, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration International Space Station or the Space Enterprise Consortium, and other programs that support technology prototyping and rideshare opportunities consistent with desired space flight objectives; 3.
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