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Congressional Members Rally Behind EnhancedView Satellite Program

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Thursday, December 1st, 2011

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A bipartisan group of six senators and an equal number of representatives have sent a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warning against cuts to a commercial satellite program designed to save government money and augment access to global imagery. The recent letter said the National Geospacial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) EnhancedView program was critical to meet imagery needs for the U.S. government and its allies to support coalition operations, an industrial base that creates…

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