
A National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) official said that the agency is looking to innovation, including that of small companies, as NRO plans to quadruple the number of its on-orbit satellites in the next decade. "At the NRO, we’re keeping an eye out to find those truly disruptive technologies that are going to be game changers,” Col. Matthew Allen, the deputy director of NRO's advanced systems and technology directorate, told a future directions panel at the Small Sat Conference in Logan,…