| rdfs:comment | - The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is one of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies and considered, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Geospatial‐Intelligence Agency (NGA), to be one of the "big five" U.S. Intelligence agencies. The NRO is headquartered 2 miles (3 km) south of Washington Dulles International Airport.
- The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) was established in September 1961 as a classified agency of the Department of Defense (DoD). The NRO consolidated the CIA's and Air Force's covert reconnaissance programs and eventually added a Navy program. Operation of the NRO was so clandestine that its very existence was only inadvertently revealed by the Senate in 1973. The existence of the NRO and its mission finally were declassified in September 1992. The NRO is the "nation's eyes and ears in space." The NRO is
- The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a UCAS intelligence agency within the Department of Defense, and a member of the UCAS Intelligence Community. The director of the agency is a civilian, who is also an Assistant Secretary within the Department of the Air Force. The original purpose of the NRO is to design, build, maintain and operate the nation's spy satellites. It is unknown whether the NRO performs any analysis itself, or whether analysis is performed by the client agencies, e.g. CIA, DIA.
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| abstract | - The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) was established in September 1961 as a classified agency of the Department of Defense (DoD). The NRO consolidated the CIA's and Air Force's covert reconnaissance programs and eventually added a Navy program. Operation of the NRO was so clandestine that its very existence was only inadvertently revealed by the Senate in 1973. The existence of the NRO and its mission finally were declassified in September 1992. The NRO is the "nation's eyes and ears in space." The NRO is NRO builds and operates U.S. reconnaissance satellites. It is the source of most of the data NIMA disseminates. NRO systems provide SIGINT (enemy communications, signals from foreign weapons systems, and other signals of interest) and GEOINT (imagery) intelligence data. NRO satellites are frequently the only collectors able to access critical areas of interest in support of covert and high priority operations. Key customers and mission partners of the NRO include: policymakers, the Armed Services, the Intelligence Community, Departments of State, Justice, and the Treasury, and civil agencies. All of them depend on NRO systems to help attack hard problems such as:
* Countering the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) threat
* Capturing terrorists
* Warning of enemy attacks
* Combating WMD proliferation
* Combating drug trafficking
* Supporting natural disaster response. NRO has worked to improve the identification of espionage threats to its operations, programs, and personnel, as well as increase the awareness of targeting efforts by nontraditional threat countries and groups. In support of its contractor community, the NRO provides tailored briefings of current threats to technology and the targeting methods they employ. In addition, the NRO has streamlined the reporting of foreign contact and foreign travel and disseminates threat information and briefings to security officers and authorized users. The NRO works closely with the FBI’s Domain Section and other mission partners to protect NRO resources and enhance the RTP program. It has also placed a counterintelligence representative at the Community Acquisition Risk Section (CARS) to support NRO requirements and the overall CARS mission.
- The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a UCAS intelligence agency within the Department of Defense, and a member of the UCAS Intelligence Community. The director of the agency is a civilian, who is also an Assistant Secretary within the Department of the Air Force. The original purpose of the NRO is to design, build, maintain and operate the nation's spy satellites. It is unknown whether the NRO performs any analysis itself, or whether analysis is performed by the client agencies, e.g. CIA, DIA. Due to the close relationship between UCAS and Ares Macrotechnology, and the fact that AresSpace is the leader in aerospace and orbital technology, NRO has strong ties to the aerospace subsidiary and is even referred to as, "a subsidiary of Ares in all but name." This is reinforced by the fact that the NRO is headquartered in Eisenhower City, which is a city that straddles Loudoun County, North Virginia, and Fairfax County, FDC that is owned and controlled by AresSpace.
- The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is one of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies and considered, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Geospatial‐Intelligence Agency (NGA), to be one of the "big five" U.S. Intelligence agencies. The NRO is headquartered 2 miles (3 km) south of Washington Dulles International Airport. It designs, builds, and operates the spy satellites of the United States government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA. The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense and serves as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Intelligence Space Technology). The NRO's federal workforce consists primarily of Air Force, CIA, NGA, NSA, and Navy personnel. A 1996 bipartisan commission report described the NRO as having by far the largest budget of any intelligence agency, and "virtually no federal workforce", accomplishing most of its work through "tens of thousands" of defense contractor personnel.
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