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Spotlight UNITED STATES Issue dated 07/05/2014

US on offensive in military imagery business

Since the shrinking budgets of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) can no longer support the industry alone, the Obama administration has gradually lifted the barriers forbidding foreign exports of US-built military satellites and very [...] (538 words)

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National Guard nabs oil from Interior ministry

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NGA opens arms to private sector

Riyadh caught between Washington, Paris

The NRO

Military imagery business set to boom

NRO in the hot seat

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Falcon Eye stand-off

France hampered by micro-electronics weakness

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Satellites: for a few centimetres less

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