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DoD Appoints Scott Large As NRO Director

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Monday, October 22nd, 2007

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Scott Large has been named as director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the Pentagon said last week. The Director of National Intelligence concurred with the appointment, it added. Before his appointment, Large served as the NRO's principal deputy director, and recently as the director of source operations and management in the National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon said in a statement. Large fills the slot held by Donald Kerr, who was confirmed by the Senate Oct. 4 as Principal…

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