Pentagon pegs new cost estimate for NPOESS at $11.5 billion

The Pentagon's latest cost estimate for the scaled-back National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program is $11.5 billion through 2020, according to a U.S. Air Force spokeswoman. NPOESS is built by Northrop Grumman and managed jointly by the National Oceanic and...

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