Budget Cuts, A Continued Threat To Our National Security.
With growing reliance of U.S. military action on space capabilities such as satellite-based surveillance, communications, and mapping and weather technologies, budget cuts continue to halt the protection, maintenance, and expansion of American space assets which weakens effective and immediate defense.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/10/us-headed-for-perfect-storm-in-space/