Senate Majority Leader Appoints Martin Faga to National Reconnaissance Office Commission

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Bedford, Massachusetts, January 27, 2000 — Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has named Martin Faga to serve on the National Commission for the Review of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

Faga is former NRO director and current executive vice president of The MITRE Corporation. He was formerly senior vice president and general manager of MITRE's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems. Prior to joining MITRE, Faga served from 1989 until 1993 as both NRO Director and assistant secretary of the Air Force for Space, where he had overall supervision of Air Force space matters, with primary emphasis on policy, strategy and planning.

The National Commission will assess the performance and future direction of the NRO, which is the agency that develops, procures and operates U.S. reconnaissance satellites. The commission was established in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, which was signed into law last month. It was chartered to "ensure that the Intelligence Community will acquire the most efficient, technologically capable, and economical satellite collection systems, and that the national policymakers and military leaders receive the intelligence they require to keep our nation secure." The commission is scheduled to deliver its final report and recommendations to Congress and the President next January.

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