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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