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Motto Supra Et Ultra (Above And Beyond)

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The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense. NRO is considered, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), to be one of the "big five" U.S. intelligence agencies.[4]

The NRO is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia,[5] 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the Washington Dulles International Airport.

It designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA.

The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense.[7] The NRO's federal workforce is a hybrid organization consisting of some 3000 personnel including NRO cadre, Air Force, Army, CIA, NGA, NSA, and Navy personnel.[8]

A 1996 bipartisan commission report described the NRO as having by far the largest budget of any intelligence agency, and "virtually no federal workforce", accomplishing most of its work through "tens of thousands" of defense contractor personnel.

Funding controversy

A Washington Post article in September 1995 reported that the NRO had quietly hoarded between $1 billion and $1.7 billion in unspent funds without informing the Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, or Congress. The CIA was in the midst of an inquiry into the NRO's funding because of complaints that the agency had spent $300 million of hoarded funds from its classified budget to build a new headquarters building in Chantilly, Virginia, a year earlier.

In total, NRO had accumulated US$3.8 billion (inflation adjusted US$ 6.4 billion in 2020) in forward funding. As a consequence, NRO's three distinct accounting systems were merged.[22]

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>Above & Beyond - Great Falls

>Motto Supra Et Ultra (Above And Beyond)

>The NRO is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia

Distance from Great Falls, VA to Chantilly, VA is 16Miles or 25 Km.

You can get this distance about 28 mins. A car with an average MPG will needs 0.74 gallons of gas to get the route between these points. The estimated cost of gas to get between Great Falls, VA and Chantilly, VA is $1.68.

https://www.distancebetweencities.net/great-falls_va_and_chantilly_va/

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>What if it also has ties to everything else we've exposed here before?

Increasing flexibility and agility at the National Reconnaissance Office : lessons from modular design, occupational surprise, and commercial research and development processes

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013

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.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR336.html

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This electronic book on CD-ROM provides a comprehensive collection of official government documents and reports on the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which calls itself the nation's eyes and ears in space. The 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

In February 1995, CORONA, a photoreconnaissance program in operation from 1960 to 1972, was declassified and 800,000 CORONA images were transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration. In December 1996, the NRO announced for the first time, in advance, the launch of a reconnaissance satellite. Corona was the nation's first photo reconnaissance satellite system, operating from August 1960 until May 1972.

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RAND played a central role in the early days of America's space reconnaissance program. This paper contains remarks made at an August 18, 1995 ceremony commemorating the 35th anniversary of the first successful film recovery from the CORONA satellite, the United State's first space reconnaissance system.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P8017.html