Troy Meink: “NRO has a broad set of customers, obviously war fighters.”

“We do this by developing, acquiring, launching, operating our nation's space based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets. This obviously includes the spacecraft themselves, but it also includes a significant ground infrastructure that's located really all over the world. NRO has a broad set of customers, obviously war fighters. We'll talk, probably talk a lot about that today, who really need that real time, rapid data. And although our role there is spanning somewhat, it's not the first.” (02:35–02:39)

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