SDIO

I wasn't talking about funding levels, Matt, but if you do want to talk about that, you picked a very bad example with SDIO.

What Civil Space Agency Would You Create? - NASA Watch 2009

I said at the time of the announcement of the VSE that if the administration was serious about it, it wouldn't put NASA in charge, but should rather set up a new entity for the job (just as SDIO was established in the eighties when it was recognized that the Air Force wasn't going to properly implement missile defense).

Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch 2009

The promising Clipper Graham DC-X program, inherited by NASA from DoD’s SDIO, was abandoned when the single flight test article was destroyed in a landing accident.

NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives 2009

When SDIO was building the DC-X demonstrator in the 1990's, NASA said it couldn't be done for less than $2 billion.

What Civil Space Agency Would You Create? - NASA Watch 2009

Then SDIO did Clementine for $70 million and embarrassed NASA into creating the Discovery series and other programs to do lower-cost planetary missions.

What Civil Space Agency Would You Create? - NASA Watch 2009

The machine runs an Intel Atom CPU at 1.6GHz and features integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and dual cameras along with SDIO and ExpressCard expansion.

Trimble Yuma rugged computer announced - SlipperyBrick.com 2009

Now, $30 billion later, there's evidence that the Strategic Defense Initiative Office (SDIO), as the Star Wars command is known, saw the flaws all along -- and knowingly masked the program's failures and overstated its progress just to keep the money rolling in.

A Safety Net Full Of Holes 2008

And in any case, argues SDIO, the system could operate with "minor errors or weaknesses."

A Safety Net Full Of Holes 2008

In 1991, SDIO conceded that Pebbles could protect America only against limited (up to 200 warheads) ballistic-missile attacks from anywhere (read: crazed Saddam-type dictators).

A Safety Net Full Of Holes 2008

Saucier has been reinstated in his job at SDIO pending review of his charges.

A Safety Net Full Of Holes 2008