Maj. Gen. Franklin J. Blaisdell (right), U.S. Air Force, director for Space Operations and Integration, recognizes a reporter for a question during a Pentagon press briefing on March 12, 2003. Blaisdell and Col. Steven Fox, U.S. Army, of Army Space Support, briefed reporters on a broad range of benefits from our space-based technologies including precision navigation and targeting, weather forecasting and voice and data communications.