"The good news about this approach is this really fits my priority of speed, speed and speed," Frank Calvelli, space acquisition czar at the Department of the Air Force, said of the plan to have NRO take the lead with Space Force oversight and some funding.
NRO and Space Force "are working hand in hand to shape the future of ground moving target indicators, which will provide day/night, all-weather detection and tracking of ground and maritime targets for the warfighter," NRO Director Chris Scolese said.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
NRO Director Chris Scolese said that he and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall are going to "tighten" the relationship between NRO and the Space Force on ISR.
Amid lawmaker concerns about turf tussles, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and NRO Director Chris Scoloese have an "informal agreement" to "work cooperatively to address DoD's ISR needs from space."
"We've been talking about the fact that space is contested, and we're probably right in the middle now of our first space fight," said Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein.
"LiDAR is a really neat technology, and we've got to take advantage of it," NRO Director Chris Scolese said.
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"Artificial intelligence and machine learning onboard the satellites to help us control the constellations is absolutely critical," says NRO Director Chris Scolese. For ground stations, too.
USDI Kari Bingen says that DoD's mission "is hampered when we have to pay in time and money analysts and experts to manually translate data files ... to makes systems and data interoperable because of proprietary data standards and formats."
NGA HQ: The low grinding noise you could barely hear yesterday was the sound of the tectonic plates of American intelligence shifting as the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Agency got new directors. The nugget of news is that Vice Adm. Bob Sharp replaces Robert Cardillo as NGA director and President Trump […]