Armor Frustrated Over Direction of NRO, Air Force Cooperation

摘要

Despite some positive recent steps to improve cooperation between the military and intelligence communities on space programs, at least one top U.S. Air Force official is concerned the two organizations appear to be moving farther apart. Maj. Gen. James Armor, director of the Pentagon's National Security Space Office, said during a recent conference that his office is doing the best it can to keep the two organizations on the same page as it develops architectures for improved space capabilities. However, that task has proven challenging in the wake of the Defense Department's decision last summer to decouple the position of Air Force undersecre tary and director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Armor said.