Polar Follow-On: NOAA Must Maintain Cost Efficiencies and Refine Launch Strategy for JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 Missions

Our objectives were to (1) assess the maturity of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Polar Follow-On program missions’ system design for indications of cost, schedule or performance issues that would threaten the ability of the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program to execute to its baselines; (2) determine the extent to which NOAA has complied with requirements to report JPSS development costs; and (3) review NOAA efforts to plan for future satellite technologies.