Drift
MUOS Narrowband SATCOM
MUOS · Navy · Lockheed Martin
+1%
$5.8B (2004) → $5.8B (2015)
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Baseline
$5.8B (2004)
Current estimate
$5.8B (2015)
Cost growth
+1%
Units
6 → 6
Quantity change
0%
Unit-cost change
+1%
IOC
2010 (planned) → 2016
Schedule slip
+6 yr
Cost basis
BY
Confidence
high · reconciled
Essentially on-baseline (+1%, BY2004) — a rare low-growth space program. The only APB breach was in sustainment (O&S), not acquisition.
Source: MUOS Dec 2015 SAR (DTIC AD1019522): $5.77B → $5.83B, 6 satellites, BY2004$.
Drift — an independent project by Aous Abdo, built from public GAO, CRS and DoD sources. Cost growth has many causes; a larger number is not by itself evidence of mismanagement. How this is built · Explore the data →