Pentagon and Intelligence Community at Odds Over BASIC

摘要

The bureaucratic dispute over a U.S. government imaging satellite procurement program has flared up anew, with a senior Pentagon official accusing his intelligence community counterparts of overstepping their bounds and trying to undo previous agreements on how to proceed. The program in question is called Broad Area Surveillance Intelligence Capability (BASIC), which includes two satellites and related ground systems for collecting imagery at resolutions of a half-meter or better. The program is intended to serve both the military and intelligence communities, and has been the subject of previous disputes between the two camps.