{"286671":{"#nid":"286671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Space Policy and Weather Satellites: A Practical Perspective","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EConrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., Vice Admiral (USN Ret.) delivered a talk titled \u201cSpace Policy and Weather Satellites: A Practical Perspective\u201d to Georgia Tech faculty and students on March 26, 2014. The event was facilitated by the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) and Nunn School Assistant Professor Mariel Borowitz.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELautenbacher provided a summary of American space policy regarding weather satellites, as well as an overview of the research, procurement, and operational processes that gets these critical assets into orbit. He argued that inefficient policy decisions, namely the U.S. government\u2019s circumscribed use of the commercial space sector, have made sustaining a working weather satellite fleet overly expensive. This high price tag has resulted in data gaps and a low number of operating units. It has also drained resources from related priorities like oceanic and climate research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELautenbacher concluded that these shortfalls are best corrected by crafting a weather satellite policy built around private industry. Market competition, he said, would reduce costs and improve the quality of weather data collection, as it has done in the space-based communications and imaging sectors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EConrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., Vice Admiral (USN Ret.) delivered a talk to Georgia Tech faculty and students on March 26, 2014, facilitated by the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) and Nunn School Assistant Professor Mariel Borowitz.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., Vice Admiral (USN Ret.) delivered a talk to Georgia Tech faculty and students on March 26, 2014, facilitated by the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) and Nunn School Assistant Professor M"}],"uid":"27751","created_gmt":"2014-03-28 14:10:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:07","author":"Vince Pedicino","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"286661":{"id":"286661","type":"image","title":"Lautenbacher and Borowitz","body":null,"created":"1449244237","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:50:37","changed":"1475894981","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:41","alt":"Lautenbacher and Borowitz","file":{"fid":"199099","name":"2014-03-26_16-06-39_127.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2014-03-26_16-06-39_127_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2014-03-26_16-06-39_127_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1316095,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2014-03-26_16-06-39_127_0.jpg?itok=szJ8E49i"}}},"media_ids":["286661"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"795","name":"CISTP"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"},{"id":"90271","name":"NOAA"},{"id":"167146","name":"space"},{"id":"3432","name":"weather"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFariah Majmundar\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:fariah@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Efariah@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["fariah@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}