NRO plans first phase for new proliferated spy sat constellation in May: Official

NRO plans first phase for new proliferated spy sat constellation in May: Official
NRO plans first phase for new proliferated spy sat constellation in May: Official

Next month’s launch “will be the first launch of an actual operational system,” NRO Principal Deputy Director Troy Meink said.

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Industry Worries Friction Twixt NRO-NGA On Commercial Imagery

Industry Worries Friction Twixt NRO-NGA On Commercial Imagery
Industry Worries Friction Twixt NRO-NGA On Commercial Imagery

NGA and NRO “have significantly overlapping Venn diagrams,” one industry source said, and they are still trying to “sort that through.” He added, “It’s not a nice clean line.”

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NRO Taps Start-Ups, Eager To Probe Commercial Tech

NRO Taps Start-Ups, Eager To Probe Commercial Tech
NRO Taps Start-Ups, Eager To Probe Commercial Tech

“To be quite honest most of our space systems are not the leading edge technologies,” Troy Meink, head of GEOINT at NRO, said. “We’ve not kept up in many cases with the commercial environment.”

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