{"id":194819,"date":"2008-08-16T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/16\/plan-proposes-abolition-of-national-reconnaissance-office\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T14:18:00","slug":"plan-proposes-abolition-of-national-reconnaissance-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/16\/plan-proposes-abolition-of-national-reconnaissance-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan Proposes Abolition of National Reconnaissance Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A2027c6a4-fce5-4b69-a05f-dbd365860b80\">Ares Homepage<\/a>: &#8220;The End of the NRO?<br \/>Posted by Bill Sweetman at 8\/14\/2008 8:15 AM CDT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRadical change\u201d is an over-used phrase, but the proposals of the Allard Commission on US national security space \u2013 previewed by commission member Gen. Ed Anderson at the Space &amp; Missile Defense Conference in Huntsville on Wednesday, are certainly radical.<\/p>\n<p>The commission recommends eliminating the National Reconnaissance Office &#8211; the agency that helped win the Cold War, and whose very existence was secret until the early 1990s &#8211; as a separate entity and removing executive authority for space systems from the Air Force, transferring both functions into a single new organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The National Security Space Independent Assessment Panel, aka the &#8220;Allard Commission,&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&amp;id=news\/SHAKE08148.xml&amp;headline=Panel%20Wants%20Massive%20Milspace%20Reshuffling\">proposing that the NRO and the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) be folded into a completely new agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the feel that the existing agencies are doing a piss-poor job, with the NRO recent history being disasterous, and the USAF constantly pulling resources to support its aircraft programs.<\/p>\n<p>My take?  Deck chairs, titanic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ares Homepage: &#8220;The End of the NRO?Posted by Bill Sweetman at 8\/14\/2008 8:15 AM CDT \u201cRadical change\u201d is an over-used phrase, but the proposals of the Allard Commission on US national security space \u2013 previewed by commission member Gen. Ed Anderson at the Space &amp; Missile Defense Conference in Huntsville on Wednesday, are certainly radical. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}