The effects of any budget/program decisions made since the information was collected during 1997-98 are NOT reflected in the National Security Space Road Map (NSSRM).

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(U) This category includes those space-based systems designed to provide timely, accurate, and reliable land, cloud, atmosphere, oceanographic, and space environment data to operational forces, either deployed or in-garrison. This includes supporting ground, naval, air, and space operations, and enhances the mission effectiveness of military forces and National agencies. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) is the primary space-based environmental-observing system dedicated to supporting DoD. The program consists of a two-satellite (minimum) constellation as well as ground command, control, and communications (C3) and centralized data processing and direct readout systems.

• Related Initiatives
• Related Categories
• Road Map Placements
• Additional Hotlinks

Related Initiatives (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
DMSP	Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)
GEOSAT	Geodetic/Geophysical Satellite (GEOSAT)
GEOSAT Follow-On	Geodetic/Geo-Physical Satellite Follow-on (GFO)
GOES	Geostationary Operational Earth Satellite (GOES)
NEMSS	National Environmental Monitoring Satellite System (NEMSS)
NPOESS	National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)
POES	Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES)

Related Categories (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
Space-Based Warning	Space-Based Warning Systems

Road Map Placements (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING	SPACE FORCE ENHANCEMENT: ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

Requirements, Funding and Additional Hotlinks (U):

(U) None.

Date Of Information (U):

(U) 21 November 1997

(U) Road Map Production Date: 18 June 2001