NGA-Commercial Partnership Could Hatch More Satellites

摘要

The U.S. National Geospa-tial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is considering expanding the program under which it is helping to fund construction of a new generation of imaging satellites to be owned and operated by private industry. Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper, the NGA director, said financial support for additional satellites beyond those already being built under the agency's NextView program is a possibility provided the necessary funding materializes. "You can always do more with more money," Clapper said Oct. 31 during a press conference here at the Geoint 2005 Symposium sponsored by the U.S. Geospa-tial Intelligence Foundation.