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NRO Looks to Commercial Practices for Increased Satellite Production, But Analysts Question Estimated Ramp Up

NRO Looks to Commercial Practices for Increased Satellite Production, But Analysts Question Estimated Ramp Up
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. Space Force lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. at 8:47 a.m. EDT on September 10 (ULA Photo)

Aerospace industry analysts are wondering how the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) will be able to achieve a quadrupling in the production of agency satellites in the next decade and whether a forecast ten-fold increase in signals and imagery collection will matter if the NRO does not have adequate artificial intelligence (AI) to sort that data. “Within the next decade, NRO expects to quadruple the number of satellites we have on orbit—different sizes, orbits, both commercial and national,” NRO Deputy Director…

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