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Acquisition Reform Regimes

The Department of Defense has entered a new acquisition regime, especially for space programs. These changes are influenced by past acquisition reforms, and there is much to learn about what those reforms did or did not achieve.
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Space Policy Resources

The Center for Space Policy and Strategy has compiled an extensive collection of current and historical documents on U.S. and international space policy, law, and regulation. Many of these documents are difficult to find and previously had not been brought together in a single online source. We hope this serves as a useful resource for researchers, students, and anyone interested in the history and future of space exploration, development, and security.
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Center for Space Policy and Strategy

The Center for Space Policy and Strategy is dedicated to shaping the future by providing nonpartisan research and strategic analysis to decisionmakers. The CSPS is part of The Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit organization that advises the government on complex space enterprise and systems engineering problems.
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The Center for Space Policy and Strategy is committed to advancing the discussion about national priorities in space. Our policy experts routinely present their research, analysis, and specialized insights at conferences and symposiums throughout the world. To book a speaker for your next event, please submit a request below.
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Upcoming Events from the Center for Space Policy and Strategy

Strategies to Outpace the Threat: Lessons Learned & New Ideas
Unfettered access and freedom to operate in space is of vital interest to the United States. Foreign proliferation of advanced space systems has left space operations congested and contested, and U.S. adversaries are quickly developing ever more lethal anti-satellite capabilities. How can we transform our national security space enterprise to continuously outpace the adversary threat?

This event, featuring Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson and other defense and congressional leaders, will focus on the need for urgent change in defense space, lessons learned for new models of defense space acquisition, and how better acquisition might meet new space systems and on-the-ground special operations needs.
March 30 2019

Washington, DC

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