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Author : Bruce Berkowitz
Publisher : National Reconnaissance Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years written by Bruce Berkowitz and published by National Reconnaissance Office. This book was released on 2011 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ingard Clausen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Intelligence Revolution 1960 written by Ingard Clausen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview: Provides a history of the Corona Satellite photo reconnaissance Program. It was a joint Central Intelligence Agency and United States Air Force program in the 1960s. It was then highly classified.
Author : Bruce Berkowitz
Publisher :
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years :. written by Bruce Berkowitz and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Suk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087325989
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (259 download)
Download or read book The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years written by Michael Suk and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the National Reconnaissance Office is a story of how opportunity, necessity, and determination converged to produce an intelligence organization unlike any that had come before. In the late 1950s, rocket and sensor technologies were just reaching a level of maturity so that, if pushed to the limit, they could assist the United States in facing the most challenging national security problem of the age: how to analyze Soviet military forces and avert a potential nuclear war.After providing the hard data that made it possible to understand and deter the Soviet Union, NRO systems later became the primary means that made possible the arms control agreements that defused U.S.-Soviet tensions. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NRO systems became ever more integrated into U.S. military capabilities, playing a critical role in the Gulf Wars, peacekeeping operations, and most recently, global operations against terrorists.In thinking about how far the NRO has come in the past fifty years, the challenge for the reader is to imagine how this national resource can continue to support U.S. security by testing the limits of technology in an era in which the American public expects greater openness and in which space operations have become commonplace. Hopefully, the lessons of scientists, engineers, and intelligence officers who created the NRO will inspire their successors, who will take the organization to even greater achievements.The objective of this monograph is to provide an account of the establishment, evolution, and accomplishments of the National Reconnaissance Office as it marks its fiftieth anniversary. It draws on the extensive body of unclassified and declassified material about the NRO that is available today to examine the agency's accomplishments and the challenges it will face in the future
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ISBN 13 : 9781937219178
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (191 download)
Download or read book The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James D. Outzen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book A History of Satellite Reconnaissance written by James D. Outzen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : U. S. Military
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ISBN 13 : 9781521085240
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (852 download)
Download or read book 20th Century Spy in the Sky Satellites written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of our comprehensive series on the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and its "spy satellite" network, this volume covers additional aspects of the history of the NRO as an organization, with a special focus on leaders, pioneers, and founders. It also includes the "lost" Volume IV history written by Robert Perry. Contents include: Section 1: Pioneers of National Reconnaissance Section 2: Program Directors of The NRO - ABC & D Section 3: Founders of National Reconnaissance Section 4: Leaders of The National Reconnaissance Office 1961-2001 Section 5: Directors of The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years Section 6: NRO History - Robert Perry -Identified by the NRO History Staff on 10 June 1999 as Being Robert Perry's Volume IV NRO designs, builds and operates the nation's reconnaissance satellites. NRO products, provided to an expanding list of customers like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Defense (DoD), can warn of potential trouble spots around the world, help plan military operations, and monitor the environment. As part of the 16-member Intelligence Community, the NRO plays a primary role in achieving information superiority for the U. S. Government and Armed Forces. A DoD agency, the NRO is staffed by DoD and CIA personnel. It is funded through the National Reconnaissance Program, part of the National Foreign Intelligence Program. The NRO Vision: Vigilance From Above. NRO Mission: Innovative Overhead Intelligence Systems for National Security. In recent years, the NRO has implemented a series of actions declassifying some of its operations. The organization was declassified in September 1992 followed by the location of its headquarters in Chantilly, VA, in 1994.
Author : Ginny Field
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937219017
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Directors of the National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years written by Ginny Field and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this profile booklet, the former DNROs [directors, National Reconnaissance Office] reflect upon the influences and experiences in their lives that prepared them to lead this organization and what they did after leaving it. They then delve into their vision for the organization and/or major challenge thy faced in leading it. They each end with the legacy they believe they left behind for the organization and the national reconnaissance discipline. Each director shares his thoughts in a single page"--Page 6.
Author : U. S. Military
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ISBN 13 : 9781521085134
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (851 download)
Download or read book 20th Century Spy in the Sky Satellites written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of our comprehensive series on the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and its "spy satellite" network, this volume covers the history of the NRO as an organization, along with documents outlining its strategic vision and plans. Contents include: Section 1: NRO At 50 Years - A Brief History Section 2: National Reconnaissance Office - The Nation's Eyes And Ears In Space Section 3: A National Reconnaissance Pocket History: Foundation For The Future Section 4: Innovative Overhead Intelligence Systems For National Security Section 5: The NRO At Forty: Ensuring Global Information Supremacy Section 6: National Reconnaissance Almanac Section 7: National Reconnaissance Office 2009 Strategic Plan NRO designs, builds and operates the nation's reconnaissance satellites. NRO products, provided to an expanding list of customers like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Defense (DoD), can warn of potential trouble spots around the world, help plan military operations, and monitor the environment. As part of the 16-member Intelligence Community, the NRO plays a primary role in achieving information superiority for the U. S. Government and Armed Forces. A DoD agency, the NRO is staffed by DoD and CIA personnel. It is funded through the National Reconnaissance Program, part of the National Foreign Intelligence Program. The NRO Vision: Vigilance From Above. NRO Mission: Innovative Overhead Intelligence Systems for National Security. In recent years, the NRO has implemented a series of actions declassifying some of its operations. The organization was declassified in September 1992 followed by the location of its headquarters in Chantilly, VA, in 1994.
Author : Anthony R. Wells
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1922387819
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Between Five Eyes written by Anthony R. Wells and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one main thing, relationships. In this remarkable book, Anthony Wells charts fifty years of change, turmoil, intense challenges, successes and failures, and never-ending abiding UK-US and Five Eyes relationships. He traces the development of institutions that he firmly believes have sustained and indeed may have saved the free world, Western democracies and their allies from those ill disposed to the value system and culture of our nations. More than a chronology of the UK-US intelligence community during this fifty-year period, it is also a personal insight into key relationships and how the abiding strength of the US and the UK and its Five Eyes allies relationships. The author has relied on his own extensive unclassified collection of papers, personal notes, diaries, as well as his family library for source material to create this book.
Author : Maurice G. Burnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Hexagon (KH-9) Mapping Camera Program and Evolution written by Maurice G. Burnett and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon programs to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from east European and Asian communist countries. The inability to gain insight into vast "denied areas" required exceptional systems to understand threats posed by US adversaries. Corona was the first imagery satellite system to help see into those areas. Hexagon began as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program with the first concepts proposed in 1964. The CIA's primary goal was to develop an imagery system with Corona-like ability to image wide swaths of the earth, but with resolution equivalent to Gambit. Such a system would afford the United States even greater advantages monitoring the arms race that had developed with the nation's adversaries. The Hexagon mapping camera flew on 12 of the 20 Hexagon missions. It proved to be a remarkably efficient and prodigious producer of imagery for mapping purposes. The mapping camera system was successful by every standard including technical capabilities, reliability, and capacity.
Author : Simon P. Worden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410219800
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Whither Space Power? written by Simon P. Worden and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of space power pervades almost every sphere and level of human existence, from politics to military affairs to commercial activities to cultural mind-sets. Yet there is little to be found today in the way of coherent space power doctrine and strategy, particularly in national security circles. To what extent do our national interests rely on space? How shall we defend our interests in space and how shall we deny our adversaries the benefits of space power in time of conflict? How can we control and exploit the space environment? How can we effectively wield space power against the full spectrum of threats -- from the lone terrorist to global peer competitors? What should be our long-range strategy and objectives if our goal is to achieve and maintain long-term space superiority? The purpose of this paper is two fold: first, to illuminate the historical and ever-increasing importance of space in modern society; and second, to prescribe, in view of this importance, the foundations of a strategy for achieving lasting space superiority and ensuring national and world security.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin C Ruffner
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0975857045
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Corona written by Kevin C Ruffner and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The documents and imagery in this volume--on the nation's first photo reconnaissance satellite system--were reviewed and declassified with unusual dispatch by a special working group of declassification officers from the National Reconnaissance Office, the Central Imagery Office, CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology, and its National Photographic Interpretation Center.
Author : Thomas Reed
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 1616732423
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)
Download or read book The Nuclear Express written by Thomas Reed and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom in our future. It is an account of where those weapons came from, how the technology surprisingly and covertly spread, and who is likely to acquire those weapons next and most importantly why. The authors’ examination of post Cold War national and geopolitical issues regarding nuclear proliferation and the effects of Chinese sponsorship of the Pakistani program is eye opening. The reckless “nuclear weapons programs for sale” exporting of technology by Pakistan is truly chilling, as is the on-again off-again North Korean nuclear weapons program.
Author : Dave Baiocchi
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780833081025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Increasing Flexibility and Agility at the National Reconnaissance Office written by Dave Baiocchi and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) become more flexible and agile in an increasingly uncertain world, RAND sought answers to two key questions. First, would the NRO benefit from building modular satellites? RAND researchers developed a method for evaluating whether a system is a good candidate for modularity and applied it to systems both inside and outside the NRO. The authors found that NRO space systems do not appear to be strong candidates for modularization. Second, what lessons might be drawn from how chief executive officers, military personnel, and health care professionals (among others) respond to surprise? RAND developed a framework to categorize professionals' responses to surprise and then conducted discussions with representatives from 13 different professions, including former ambassadors, chief executive officers, military personnel, and physicians. The authors observed that all interviewees used common coping strategies. The authors also found some differences in response to surprise that depend on two factors: time available to respond and the level of chaos in the environment. The report concludes with recommendations on actions that the NRO can take to improve the flexibility of its hardware and the workforce.
Author : Air Force Historical Foundation. Symposium
Publisher : Department of the Air Force
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The U.S. Air Force in Space, 1945 to the Twenty-First Century: Proceedings written by Air Force Historical Foundation. Symposium and published by Department of the Air Force. This book was released on 1998-09-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers presented at the Air Force Historical Foundation Symposium, held at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on September 21-22, 1995. Topics addressed are: Pt. 1, The Formative Years, 1945-1961; Pt. 2, Mission Development and Exploitation Since 1961; and Pt. 3, Military Space Today and Tomorrow. Includes notes, abbreviations & acronyms, an index, and photographs.
