Message posted by loopbacktest4echo on August 14, 2008 at 8:01:49 PST:
Shutting down NRO (A51's mentor), and replacing it with NSSA/NSSO? "Within the DoD, the commission would establish a National Security Space Authority (NSSA) with its chief carrying two titles: undersecretary of defense for space and deputy director of national intelligence for space. Anderson describes “dual-hatting” as not the best practice, but essential to provide high-level leadership over both military space and the intelligence community. “We recognized that if we were too disruptive we’d get nowhere.” "The NSSA would direct a National Security Space Organization (NSSO), responsible for developing, acquiring and supporting all military and intelligence spacecraft, white and black. The NSSO director, a three-star or equivalent, would have two deputies – one for military space and the other for the intelligence world – and the NSSO would absorb the NRO, the USAF’s Space & Missile Center in Los Angeles, the USAF Research Laboratory’s space vehicles directorate and the operational end of USAF Space Command. "There's no longer a need for two separate organizations," says Anderson. "What the NRO did in the Cold War was superb, but things have changed."
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