NRO Tilts Toward Ground Systems

摘要

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is taking on a new strategic direction that features a greater emphasis on ground-based data handling and processing systems, a shift that likely will draw resources from the agency's classified spy satellite programs. Experts believe the move is long overdue, given the disparity between the amount of data collected by the hugely expensive satellite platforms and the intelligence community's ability to process and distribute the information.