Commission: Kill Spy Sat Agency

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"It's been a roller coast ride for the National Reconnaissance Office, the intelligence agency that builds the 
country's spy satellites.
Shortly after Sept. 11, a former top CIA official told me the secretive space agency had a new slogan plastered inside 
the building
 -- BACK TO BLACK -- an indication perhaps, that NRO had found a new sense of purpose in the war on terror (or at least 
a new reason for secrecy).

Well, it could possibly really be lights out soon for the agency that has been at the center of some notable recent 
failures (regardless of where the fault lies for those failures).
The Allard Commission on US national security space is about to recommend the NRO be shuttered once and for all.
"The commission recommends eliminating the National Reconnaissance Office - the agency that helped win the Cold War, 
and whose very existence was secret until the early 1990s -
as a separate entity and removing executive authority for space systems from the Air Force, transferring both functions 
into a single new organization,"
reports Bill Sweetman on Aviation Week's ARES blog."
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More at
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/its-been-a-roll.html

Original source:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a2027c6a4-fce5-4b69-a05f-dbd365860b80

Juha-Matti
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