The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just released a report on Environmental Satellites: Strategy Needed to Sustain Critical Climate and Space Weather Measurements. In the report, GAO finds a lack of continuation plans to provide the full measurement capabilities necessary to understand our changing planet.
“Until an interagency strategy for earth observation is established, and a clear process for implementing it is in place, federal agencies will continue to procure their immediate priorities on an ad hoc basis, the economic benefits of a coordinated approach to investments in earth observation may be lost, and the continuity of key measurements may be lost. This will hinder our nation’s ability to understand long-term climate changes.”
You can read the full report here.
