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NRO Spends Billions Buying Satellites Faster Than Necessary, House Intel Committee Says

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Monday, August 4th, 2014

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The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) buys intelligence satellites faster than necessary in an effort to stabilize the industrial base, which could cost taxpayers billions of dollars, according to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). HPSCI released an unclassified summary of a classified, bipartisan report that recommends “sufficiently scrutinizing” NRO’s assumptions about how fast it needs to buy satellites in order to achieve industrial base stability, which could reveal the potential for billions of dollars in savings over the…

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