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Max Vozoff (SpaceX's Director of Civil Business Development) on COTS-like space procurement.
GREAT read!
Space Review link....
GREAT read!
Space Review link....
“COTS-like”: the future of space procurement
by Max Vozoff
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The current Administration’s Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee (aka the “Augustine Commission”) has generated a lot of debate, but one message has emerged loud and clear: NASA is going to have to find a way to do more with less, which means a greater use of commercial procurement practices. As USAF Colonel Peter Garretson observed in a recent article, “The most important and transformational program at NASA is not Constellation, but rather COTS [Commercial Orbital Transportation Services] and its innovative partnership and prize programs, which are focused on a meaningful and more important sustainable expansion of viable American capabilities.” (see “Elements of a 21st century space policy”, The Space Review, August 3, 2009) As NASA determines how best to engage the commercial space sector that is increasingly becoming an established part of the aerospace landscape, they should take a close look at their own Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, which the Obama campaign identified last year as a good model for government/industry collaboration.
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