Troy Meink: “The primary mission of the National Reconnaissance Office is…”

“I know we have a lot of questions, so I'll try to keep my comments, try to keep my comments short. So I'm sure as people are well aware, you know, The primary mission of the National Reconnaissance Office is to help maintain the US Intelligence advantage globally. 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.” (02:11–02:19)

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