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y the Defense Department and throughout the U.S. intelligence community. Among those images are believed to be pictures that documented elements of the Soviet space program. low-resolution camera, Vick said. It also allowed analysts to get a look at huge swathes of territory with fewer pictures — a single frame covered about 370 nautical miles, roughly the equivalent of the distance from Cincinnati to Washington. In total there were 20 Hexagons put into orbit over the years. The one on display this weekend — which was not among them — has had portholes cut into the sides so that the internal camera machinery will be visible, according to Rick Oborn, an NRO spokesman. After the Vick http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/staff/vick.htm “It constituted quite an advance in film-based imagery systems,” said Charles P. Vick, a senior technical and policy analyst at GlobalSecurity.org, a defense think tank. “We have to realize that these film-based systems were the highest technology at the time.” The satellite allowed the intelligence community to event on Saturday, the Hexagon will be returned for a time to the headquarters of the highly secretive NRO, located south of Dulles, so employees and “alumni” of the agency will be able to see it. “If you want to invite folks over here,” Oborn deadpanned, “they won’t get in.” Plans call for the satellite to be moved later to the National Museum of the Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton. capture the highest-quality imagery it had ever gotten with http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/top-secret-us-surveillance-satellite-now-declassified-gets-a-public-showing-in-virginia/2011/09/16/gIQAMVssXK_blog.html [ 関連ニュース、本文テキスト略 ] 10:33 PM on 17th September 2011 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ LAURIE WHITWELL Top secret surveillance satellite Big Bird, which took pictures of Soviet Union during Cold War, goes on public viewing Cold War: Big Bird is thought to have produced critical images of the Soviet Union and China http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2038423/Top-secret-surveillance-satellite-Big-Bird-goes-public-viewing.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - September 15, 2011 www.federaltimes.com/article/ By MARCUS WEISGERBER 予算削減がしのびよるにつれ、NRO はわずかに公開 As cuts loom, NRO opens up - just a bit 10
The United States' premiere satellite spy agency has been able to preserve science and technology funding used to develop unique capabilities that are saving lives on the battlefield despite across-the-board federal budget cuts. Still, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is expecting to take hits, like all government organizations, particularly when it comes to personnel. systems acquisitions are green." Carlson said he could use additional funding to test the technologies on smaller satellites. Program ‘Red Dot' In recent months, a new technology has been helping NRO detect electronically detonated improvised explosive devices (IEDs) or roadside bombs. "We do a lot of work to make sure that we know what those signals are and where they're coming from and to geolocate them," Carlson said. One program, called Red Dot, has been about "80 percent effective" against these roadside bombs, Carlson said. The program places a red dot on a screen in a ground vehicle or command post indicating a "high probability that there is an IED there." "It's a pretty clever set of technologies," he said. "What it has meant is that even though Carlson "I will take money out of [operations]," NRO director Bruce Carlson said during a Thursday breakfast with reporters in Washington. Asked what parts of operations will be affected by budget cuts, Carlson said, "I won't have as many people on the floor who look at stuff. I probably won't have as many people who are doing collaboration or integration. And I won't have as many people in the lab" where post-processing is done. While preparing its 2013 budget, NRO had a strategy to protect "our people" who are part of the mission, baseline programs and science-and-technology accounts, Carlson said. So far, the organization has been able to preserve science and technology (S&T) funding at "historical levels" of 8 percent of the organization's budget. But he said this could all change if additional federal budget cuts are mandated this fall. "I'm happy right now," Carlson said. "I would always like more, and the reason I would like more is that I have several candidate technologies that I would like to demonstrate. They're just not ready to put them on an operational satellite yet, but they're certainly ready to demonstrate." NRO has launched six satellites in the past seven months, Carlson said. About 60 percent of the technology on those satellites came from NRO science-and-technology programs. "That base is very important to us," he said. Many demonstrations of these new technologies are conducted on small satellites, including several on orbit right now, Carlson said. All of NRO's acquisitions programs are "in the green" — performing on time and budget, Carlson said. "Two years ago, probably one-third to 40 percent of the portfolio was either yellow or red," he said. "Today it's green. All of our major we still have an unacceptable loss from IEDs, we are catching a lot of them before they're detonated." Old satellites designed to intercept long-range Soviet communications are now intercepting phone calls and hand-held radio communications in theater, according to Carlson. "What we've tried to do with our satellites is make them adaptable and robust," he said. "We have been successful in getting more life out of them than we originally planned." Fusion today is better than it was three or four years ago, but still below what it has to be. "It's incredibly difficult to take a picture some place and fuse it with signals intelligence that you might have a million different pieces of," he said. "To sort that all out and then geolocate it rapidly is a difficult process." NRO accomplishes many of these tasks "in minutes or less," Carlson said. The "big game changer" these days is to take intelligence from multiple sources and fuse it, Carlson said. "They don't want a map. They don't want a picture. They want a picture with a dot on it," he said. The organization has also been able to improve its ability to detect the location of insurgents using handheld radios. When a cellphone communicates with a tower, it sends metadata that allows a location to be determined. Push-to-talk radios — which can be widely purchased and are abundant in theater — are simply a transmitter and receiver. "It is incredibly difficult to locate those," Carlson said. It takes a combination of fused data from satellites and other airborne assets, such as RC-135 Rivet Joints and Predator drones. "The more sensors you can get on that push-to-talk radio, you can identify the one you're looking at," he said. "If you can get three or four or five of those sensors on it, we can do that geolocation very, very quickly and we can do it very accurately." The science to detect these radios has improved "exponentially" over the 11
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