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The National Academies conducted a Congressionally mandated consensus study to assess current and future space-based optics technology.
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Acquisition Strategies for Future Space-Based Optics Follow On Letter Report: Unclassified Summary
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·2023
In December 2020, the National Reconnaissance Offices Geospatial Intelligence Directorate asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the advancements and changes that have occurred since the production of the classified consensus study Acquisition Strategies for Fu...
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