Excerpt from Space Acquisition Policies and Processes: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session; November 18, 2003 What we're about here and you're hearing today is an important topic. We need to improve the way we acquire national security space systems. We need to be able to deliver them predictably and on schedule. Lives are at stake and we recognize that. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to discuss the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.