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Congress Tells Intelligence Agencies To Integrate Space Efforts

By Marc Selinger

Friday, May 5th, 2017

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Congress Tells Intelligence Agencies To Integrate Space Efforts

An Atlas V launches for an NROL mission. Photo: ULA

The newly enacted fiscal year 2017 intelligence author‎ization act requires the director of national intelligence (DNI) to develop a plan to better integrate the intelligence community’s space and counter-space efforts.The DNI is expected to work with the defense secretary on the plan, which is supposed to include such matters as acquisition, analysis, collection and policy.“The congressional intelligence committees believe the current fragmented arrangement across the [intelligence community] does not provide sufficient coherence to meet the threat, fosters duplication, hinders integrated…

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