The United States and Taiwan, through an Agreement signed in May 2010, have begun to jointly develop a satellite program to deliver next-generation global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) data to users around the world. This Program, known as FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2, is the follow-on to the FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC mission, which was a joint US-Taiwan 6-satellite constellation demonstration mission launched in April 2006. The COSMIC mission was the world's first operational GPS radio occultation (GPS-RO) mission for global weather forecast; climate monitoring; atmospheric, ionospheric, and geodetic research.The GPS-RO data from COSMIC has been extremely valuable to the climate, meteorology, and space weather communities, including real-time forecasting users as well as U.S. and international research communities.

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This article advocates that whistleblowing is good for an organization, with certain caveats. The definition and history of whistleblowers are discussed, and examples of how whistleblowers could have saved organizations money and their reputations are provided. Results of surveys and studies that show how whistleblowing is beneficial for organizations are provided and discussed. Finally, steps for organizations to encourage internal whistleblowing are described.

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