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Noun: National Reconnaissance Office
  1. An intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations
    - NRO

Type of: United States intelligence agency

Part of: Defense [US], Defense Department [US], Department of Defense, DoD, IC, Intelligence Community, National Intelligence Community, United States Department of Defense, United States Intelligence Community

Encyclopedia: National Reconnaissance Office