So said new National Reconnaissance Office boss Bruce Carlson, retired Air Force four-star who last head Air Force Materiel Command, according to a DOD Buzz report. Speaking in San Antonio at the Geospatial Intelligence Foundation symposium this week, Carlson noted there have been “very costly and very significant failures” with reconnaissance spacecraft, but he said NRO’s performance over the past 18 months indicates that “we are going to turn the corner and we are going to deliver on time and on cost.” Earlier speakers noted that the US is losing the space race, but at least one other expressed the same optimism that the Air Force and NRO would overcome the plague of cost and schedule problems. (Also read GEOINT blog report)
The Pentagon’s new Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault in the Military has 90 days to find ways to combat the problem within the ranks, and the group will consider all options to address an issue that has “shattered the dreams” of many service members who joined with optimism about…