National Reconnaissance Office

He is contractor for the National Reconnaissance Office, which is very secretive intelligence agency.

CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2001 2001

That actually goes to another agency called the National Reconnaissance Office, and they build satellites for NSA and other agencies and -- and -- so a lot of that budget has to also be put towards NSA.

Body of Secrets/The Wizards of Langley 2001

WEINER: Pike is an expert in the overhead reconnaissance systems, the spy satellites, run by an agency called the National Reconnaissance Office, which officially does not exist.

Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget 1990

There are literally only one handful of staffers who have any expertise in the National Reconnaissance Office, which is the office that manages spy satellites and happens to spend tens of billions of dollars a year to do that.

NPR Topics: News 2011

Their speculation is based on the customer being identified as the National Reconnaissance Office, the secretive federal umbrella agency that operates spy satellites.

latimes.com - News 2011

Their speculation is based on the customer being identified as the National Reconnaissance Office, the secretive federal umbrella agency that operates spy satellites.

latimes.com - News 2011

"I recently went to a top secret military facility called the National Reconnaissance Office," Franchi said during his speech.

Homeland Stupidity 2009

The Pentagon's National Reconnaissance Office, which builds and operates the largest and most sophisticated U.S. spy satellites, has been hit particularly hard by steeply rising launch prices.

U.S. Widens Rocket Field Andy Pasztor 2011

But what happens if the work of such US governmental organizations as the CIA, the DIA (Defence Intelligence Agency), the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) or the NSA (National Security Agency) is outsourced?

David Isenberg: Are Private Contractors the Vulnerable Underbelly of the Intelligence Community? 2010

* The National Reconnaissance Office cannot produce, launch or maintain its large satellite surveillance systems, which photograph countries such as China, North Korea and Iran, without the four major contractors it works with.

Top Secret America: National Security Inc. 2010