Nie sprawdziły się propozycje redukcji budżetu NOAA o 20 %.
Podstawowe programy GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R) i JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System) zyskały pełne finansowanie.
Omnibus bill increases funding for NOAA weather satellite and space weather programsby Jeff Foust — March 22, 2018
WASHINGTON — A final fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending bill released March 21 fully funds two key weather satellite programs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration while increasing funding for future weather satellites and space weather efforts.
The bill provides full funding for NOAA’s two major weather satellite programs, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R (GOES-R) and Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). GOES-R receives $518.5 million and JPSS $775.8 million, the same amounts the administration requested in its original proposal last year.
The budget does include additional funding, though, for the Polar Follow-On program, which covers the third and fourth JPSS satellites. The administration sought $180 million for the program in 2018, citing plans to stretch out the schedules for those later satellites, but the bill provides $419 million. (...)
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