National Reconnaissance Office

A Department of Defense agency tasked to ensure that the United States has the technology and spaceborne and airborne assets needed to acquire intelligence worldwide, including support to such functions as monitoring of arms control agreements, indications and warning, and the planning and conducting of military operations. This mission is accomplished through research and development, acquisition, and operation of spaceborne and airborne intelligence data collection systems. Also called NRO.

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National Reconnaissance Office - an intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations

NRO

Defense Department, Department of Defense, DoD, United States Department of Defense, Defense - the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947

United States intelligence agency - an intelligence service in the United States

IC, Intelligence Community, National Intelligence Community, United States Intelligence Community - a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence

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Defense Department
Department of Defense
DOD
IC
Intelligence Community
National Intelligence Community
NRO
United States Department of Defense
United States intelligence agency
United States Intelligence Community

sold defective microelectronic parts to the National Reconnaissance Office.

Northrop to pay $325M to settle suit by whistle-blower by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Young is currently serving as major program manager for National Reconnaissance Office and National Remote Sensing System, Washington, D.

Flag officer assignments by Defense AT & L

Robert Kehler, head of Air Force Space Command, and Scott Large, National Reconnaissance Office director, will "step forward and respond to the GAO in a straightforward manner," Wynne says in an interview during the Space Foundation's national space symposium.

Pentagon, intelligence community may adopt unified space strategy by Wagner, Breanne / National Defense

National Insurance

national intelligence

National Intelligence Community

national intelligence estimate

national intelligence support team

national intelligence surveys

National Labor Relations Board

national leader

National Liberation Army

National Liberation Front

National Liberation Front of Corsica