
The Defense Department and the intelligence community have found a solution for an ongoing discussion of how to better incorporate their respective space offices, and plan to merge the National Reconnaissance Office and the forthcoming U.S. Space Command into a new national space defense center, the acting director of national intelligence said Aug. 20. Speaking at the sixth meeting of the National Space Council in Chantilly, Virginia, Acting DNI Joseph Maguire announced the recommendation that the new national space defense…