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	National Reconnaissance Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a department of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) which designs, builds and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the United States government.
		The Director of the NRO is appointed by the Secretary of Defense with the consent of the Director of National Intelligence, without confirmation from Congress.
		It also coordinates collection and analysis of information from airplane and satellite reconnaissance by the military services and the Central Intelligence Agency.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office (745 words)

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	encarta.msn.com /National_Reconnaissance_Office.html (210 words)

	:: Welcome to the National Reconnaissance Office ::
		The Deputy Director, National Reconnaissance Office reports to and coordinates with the DNRO on all NRO activities.
		The Director of the NRO is responsible to the SECDEF and the DNI for all national space and assigned airborne reconnaissance activities.
		The Director of the NRO is appointed by the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) with concurrence of the Director of National Intelligence.
	www.nro.gov /organization.html (158 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: National Reconnaissance Office Privacy Act Program
		If a requester elects to request NRO review, the request shall be sent in writing to the Privacy Act Coordinator, National Reconnaissance Office, 14675 Lee Road, Chantilly, VA 20151- 1715, briefly identifying the particular record which is the subject of the request and setting forth the reasons for the appeal.
		ADDRESSES: National Reconnaissance Office, Information Access and Release Center, 14675 Lee Road, Chantilly, VA 20151-1715.
		L.M. Bynum, Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-GENERAL/2000/April/Day-17/g9417.htm (7229 words)

	portland imc - 2003.09.10 - National Reconnaissance Office Satellite
		A National Reconnaissance Office payload was successfully launched aboard a Titan IVB rocket from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. Sept 9 at 12:29 a.m.
		Spetember 9...The National Reconnaissance Office lauched a sattellite.
		The NRO (which is essentially composed of NSA people), as you probably know, is the government organization in charge of sending up and using most of the nation's spy satellites.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/09/271525.shtml (853 words)

	National Reconnaissance Office: out of the 'black box'
		ûCourtesy photoûûûPictured above is the National Reconnaissance Office headquarters in Chantilly, Va. The NRO logged more than 31 years of service to the nation before the U.S. Government officially disclosed its existence in Sept. 1992.
		The Air Force was in on the ground floor of the NRO in the early 1960s when President Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly established a civilian-run office in the Pentagon to oversee an experimental, military satellite reconnaissance program started several years earlier by the Air Force.
		The NRO is a separate DOD operating agency and one of 13 member agencies of the national intelligence community.
	www.dcmilitary.com /airforce/beam/6_04/features/4573-1.html (683 words)

	National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Headquarters
		The headquarters for the National Reconnaissance Office, the federal spy satellite organization, is located in this four-building complex on 68 acres, five miles south of Dulles International Airport.
		The NRO was established in 1960, but its existance was classified until 1992.
		The $350 million complex was completed in 1994, and houses around 3,000 NRO employees.
	ludb.clui.org /ex/i/VA3142 (86 words)

	9/11 war games before and during the attacks
		In addition the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) which is staffed by military and CIA personnel, and is in charge of most American spy satellites, was running a drill for the scenario of an errant aircraft crashing into its headquarters.
		I'm thinking, for instance, of the casual bombshell that dropped a year after 9/11, that on the morning of the attacks the National Reconnaissance Office was running a simulation of a plane crashing into a government building.
		The National Reconnaissance Office operates many of the nation's spy satellites.
	www.oilempire.us /wargames.html (14046 words)

	Studies in Intelligence
		Robert Kohler’s article on the decline of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) contends that the NRO is currently “a shadow of its former self” and explores what might be done to improve “the dissolving relationship between the NRO and the CIA.” The NRO that Mr.
		Commentary on “The Decline of the National Reconnaissance Office ”
		We are striving to provide the nation with the best space-based reconnaissance capabilities to meet the changing national security demands of the 21st century.
	www.cia.gov /csi/studies/vol46no2/article12.html (1970 words)

	National Reconnaissance Office: Defining the Future of the NRO for the 21st Century
		The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is implementing a series of recommendations from a blueribbon panel presented in the Fall of 1996.
		The SECDEF-DCI partnership to manage, fund, and man an organization for space-based reconnaissance to provide a major part of the collection front-end of the intelligence process for national and operational military users is the raison d'etre of the NRO.
		NRO intelligence partners are already planning changes in their own mission objectives and business practices in response to the information age.
	cryptome.sabotage.org /nro-jer.htm (6193 words)

	The NRO Declassified
		The end of the Cold War and collapse of the Soviet Union required the U.S. intelligence community and NRO to reconsider how U.S. overhead reconnaissance systems were employed and what capabilities future systems should possess.
		The NRO would manage the NRP "under the direction, authority, and control of the Secretary of Defense." The NRO's director would be selected by the Defense Secretary with the concurrence of the DCI, and report to the Defense Secretary.
		It represented a significant victory for the CIA, assigning key decision-making authority to an executive committee, authority that was previously the prerogative of the NRO director as the agent of the Secretary of Defense.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB35 (4762 words)

	SPACE.com -- An embroidered patch, distributed by the National Reconnaissance Office, may have revealed the classified payload.
		Citing national security, the payload was only identified as the responsibility of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
		An embroidered patch, distributed by the National Reconnaissance Office, may have revealed the classified payload.
		NRO spokesperson Haubold confirmed that the patch was released in connection with the August 17, 2000, launch.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/missions/spypatch_000831.html (992 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Reconnaissance Office Transforms Space ISR
		Irving L. Halter Jr., deputy director for national systems operations with the Joint Staff and deputy director for military support at the NRO, said his organization is not your typical intelligence agency.
		And while other organizations are working to transform military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance on the ground, the NRO is looking at that transformation with a bird's-eye view.
		Not only does NRO serve the intelligence community, but it also is at the nexus of the Department of Defense.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Oct2004/n10042004_2004100410.html (758 words)

	ROBERT A
		Robert A. (Bob) McDonald is a senior policy adviser at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) within the Office of Policy where he directs the Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance, the office's policy analysis and research team.
		McDonald came to the NRO from the National War College (NWC), where he was the Representative of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to the National War College and served as a Professor of National Security Policy and Psychology.
		McDonald is the editor and a contributor to the 1997 book, Corona between the Sun and the Earth: The First NRO Reconnaissance Eye in Space.
	www.ndu.edu /inss/symposia/jointops99/mcdonald.html (342 words)

	NRO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		National Review Online - web version of the magazine National Review
		This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NRO (114 words)

	Program Manager: National Reconnaissance Office -- Moving Toward the Learning Organization.(intelligence services development)@ HighBeam Research
		For over 30 years, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has acquired and operated the world's most advanced space-based intelligence capabilities.
		National Reconnaissance Office -- Moving Toward the Learning Organization.(intelligence services development)
		A covert, classified operation for most of those 30 years, NRO provided this service to the national and military leaders of the United States under the tightest security.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:77959417&... (215 words)

	National Reconnaissance Office Satellite Successfully Launched
		A National Reconnaissance Office satellite was successfully launched aboard an Atlas IIA rocket from Space Launch Complex 36 here at 1:37 p.m.
		The launch was a team effort between the NRO, the Cape's 3rd Space Launch Squadron, Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles AFB, Calif.
		The NRO, which designed and built the satellite, will also operate it.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/library/news/1998/01/prs_rel16.html (122 words)

	The Memory Hole > Space-Industry Insider Blasts the National Reconnaissance Office
		They have the nicest office complex in all of America, granite and marble, soaring stainless steel and glass, and mahogany desks in private offices.
		So I ask again, where are the innovative new satellites at a time when our president--who you're going to hear from in a minute--and the office of the Secretary of Defense and the secretaries are calling for transforming the military and skipping a generation of technology in some new systems?
		Perhaps a better slogan for the NRO's Website would be: "You could buy better, but you can't pay more." For you see, the image that the NRO likes to portray to all of us regular people is the image of being lean, mean, fast and black.
	www.thememoryhole.org /nro-comments.htm (1586 words)

	National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
		In recent years, NRO has declassified some of its earlier missions, including the 1960-72 Corona photoreconnaissance operation.
		A United States Department of Defense agency that designs, builds and operates American reconnaissance (spy) satellites.
		In December 1996, NRO also gave, for the first time, advance notice of the launch of one its spacecraft.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/N/NRO.html (150 words)

	NEWS! - Asst. Professor, Hwang Lee - awarded as Principal Investigator of $400K one year grant from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
		Professor, Hwang Lee - awarded as Principal Investigator of $400K one year grant from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
		NRO satellites contain extremely thermally sensitive hardware so precise thermal management is essential, and becomes a critical consideration in designing satellites that require more power and longer lifetime.
		The DII is the NRO's primary program to identify key concepts and ideas, which will be used to shape the future NRO, from developers not traditionally associated with the NRO.
	www.phys.lsu.edu /dept/news/hwangleeNROPI.html (314 words)

	The National Reconnaissance Office: A Strategy for Addressing the Commercialization of Satellite Imagery - Storming Media
		This market trend has serious implications for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) - the government agency responsible for developing, launching, and operating U.S. imagery and signals intelligence satellites.
		The NRO should focus its resources on imagery that is custom-tailored for its intelligence customers (and purposefully lacking in practical application for other users).
		These events have also presented the NRO with several new options for completing its mission, which is to provide the U. intelligence community with high-quality imagery at a reasonable cost.
	www.stormingmedia.us /01/0166/A016663.html (292 words)

	SPACE.com -- Secret Satellite Photos To Be Unveiled
		Later this month, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) is set to declassify Keyhole (KH) imagery from the KH-7 and KH-9 satellites, two highly hush-hush intelligence-gathering spacecraft of Cold War vintage.
		Following declassification, the photos are to be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
		They feature images of national security significance that served as an important input to the U.S. Government policy process.
	www.space.com /news/secret_sat_000906.html (843 words)

	USNews.com: National Reconnaissance Office in crisis: America's secret spy satellites are costing billions, but they can't even get off the launch pad (8/11/03)
		To complicate matters, he divides his time between the NRO and the Pentagon because he also serves as under secretary of the Air Force, overseeing all U.S. national security space programs.
		Fitzgerald was responsible for the Advanced Parcae satellite--the spacecraft used to track terrorist shipping--and was promoted to the position of NRO deputy director a few weeks before the launch of the flawed satellite.
		Both Harris and Hill were forced out of the NRO in 1996 in the scandal over excessive reserve funds.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/030811/11nro_6.htm (533 words)

	Kerr takes helm of National Reconnaissance Office
		Donald M. Kerr was appointed director of the National Reconnaissance Office July 22, replacing Peter B. Teets who also served as undersecretary of the Air Force.
		The agency is staffed by Defense Department and CIA personnel and funded through the National Reconnaissance Program, which is part of the National Foreign Intelligence Program.
		NRO designs, builds and operates the country’s reconnaissance satellites.
	www.gcn.com /vol1_no1/technology-policy/36482-1.html (205 words)

	NRO - 2001-2005
		Despite a major transformation of the major national security challenges facing the United States, the imagery intelligence system in use today is essentially the same as that used during the Cold War.
		The primary mission of imagery intelligence is trending away from the national strategic mission of the Cold War and toward a real-time battlefield information role....
		The office is an arm of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /nro_folder/nro01.html (929 words)

	NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE
		A Critical View of the National Reconnaissance Office by Dave Thompson, President & CEO, Spectrum Astro, at the 18th National Space Symposium, April 11, 2002.
		Proposed Changes in the Operation and Organization of the National Reconnaissance Office, memorandum for the CIA deputy director (research), 11 January 1963
		Report of the National Commission for the Review of the National Reconnaissance Office, November 15, 2000
	www.fas.org /irp/nro (348 words)

	SPACE.com -- Spy Satellites: Still a Few Steps Ahead
		According to an estimate by the private Federation of American Scientists (FAS), three satellites operated by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) have resolutions as sharp as 10 centimeters (3.93 inches) -- in other words, the satellites can discern a softball-sized object from several hundred miles away.
		On rare occasion, Brown believes, NRO may dip one of its satellites into a low orbit to take images at resolutions better than 10 centimeters.
		He notes that NRO has fast "revisit times" -- such as the ability to photograph a particular site several times a day -- because it operates multiple satellites.
	www.space.com /news/gov_imagery_990921.html (322 words)

	USATODAY.com - Atlas rocket lofts U.S. spy satellite
		CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) — An Atlas 3 rocket lifted off into space early Thursday carrying a secret military payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that oversees the nation's constellation of spy satellites.
		Shortly after Thursday's liftoff, Atlas officials marked the end of the complex's use with a ceremony that was capped off by a symbolic shutdown of the lights at the pad.
		The last mission to lift off from pad 36A, an Atlas 2AS carrying an NRO payload, took place last summer.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2005-02-03-atlas-3-launch_x.htm (463 words)

	ASAP Software : Government: Agency: National Reconnaissance Office
		ASAP Software is pleased to offer the National Reconnaissance Office an easy and cost effective way to purchase software and hardware products via our GSA Schedule offering and Open Market purchasing vehicles.
		ASAP Software : Government: Agency: National Reconnaissance Office
		In addition, ASAP Software has the expertise to provide the NRO with software-related services including asset management, installation, implementation, customization, training, support, maintenance and much more.
	www.asap.com /government_agency_details_1078004662406.html (123 words)

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