[FPSPACE] FW: Secrecy News -- 03/05/08

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: "Steven Aftergood" <saftergood at fas.org>
>Reply-To: saftergood at fas.org
>To: ljk4 at msn.com
>Subject: Secrecy News -- 03/05/08
>Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:00:01 -0500
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>SECRECY NEWS
>from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
>Volume 2008, Issue No. 23
>March 5, 2008
>
>Secrecy News Blog:  http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/
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>**	COMMERCIAL SATELLITES AS "NATIONAL TECHNICAL MEANS"
>**	I.F. STONE PROJECT ON JOURNALISTIC INDEPENDENCE
>**	PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE, AND MORE FROM CRS
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>COMMERCIAL SATELLITES AS "NATIONAL TECHNICAL MEANS"
>
>U.S. intelligence agencies could do more to incorporate commercial
>satellite capabilities into the U.S. intelligence satellite
>architecture, an advisory panel told the Directors of the National
>Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance
>Office (NRO) in a study last year.
>
>The report laid out several scenarios for integrating commercial
>capabilities into the government's "National Technical Means."
>
>The panel's preferred scenario "that mitigates the most risk is for the
>US government to competitively acquire satellites and supporting
>infrastructure to ensure maximum control and access to imagery data on
>demand."
>
>Purchase of satellites is warranted, the panel said, because "The US
>government cannot rely on or be dependent on any external entity to
>responsively get needed data."
>
>The report "contains general findings about the technical competency
>and business viability of commercial remote sensing vendors, suppliers,
>and CDPs [commercial data providers] in the United States."
>
>The report also specifies the standards that commercial vendors need to
>meet in order to fulfill a spectrum of intelligence requirements.
>
>"The requested review was in response to concerns/criticisms by
>Congress of how NGA and NRO have under-utilized commercial remote
>sensing capabilities."
>
>The unclassified report has not been publicly released, but a copy was
>obtained by Secrecy News.
>
>See "Independent Study of the Roles of Commercial Remote Sensing in the
>Future National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG)," Report to the
>Directors of the NGA and the NRO, July 16, 2007:
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>      http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/crs.pdf
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>I.F. STONE PROJECT ON JOURNALISTIC INDEPENDENCE
>
>I.F. Stone (1907-1989), the celebrated journalist and iconoclast who
>was renowned for his independence, is being remembered in the service
>of the values he embodied.
>
>The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University today announced the
>establishment of an I.F. Stone Award for journalistic independence,
>integrity and courage.
>
>      http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/
>
>A richly detailed new website devoted to I.F. Stone provides excerpts
>from his writings, biographical information, reminiscences and other
>information:
>
>      http://www.ifstone.org/
>
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>PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE, AND MORE FROM CRS
>
>Noteworthy new or updated reports from the Congressional Research
>Service that have not been made readily available to the public include
>the following.
>
>"Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)," updated February 4, 2008:
>
>      http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL34327.pdf
>
>"Botnets, Cybercrime, and Cyberterrorism: Vulnerabilities and Policy
>Issues for Congress," updated January 29, 2008:
>
>      http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/RL32114.pdf
>
>"Executive Order 13,438: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who
>Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq," updated January 29, 2008:
>
>      http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL34254.pdf
>
>"Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Security Issues and Implications for
>U.S. Interests," updated January 31, 2008:
>
>      http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL30679.pdf
>
>"Asylum Law and Female Genital Mutilation: Recent Developments,"
>February 15, 2008:
>
>      http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS22810.pdf
>
>"'Wounded Warrior' and Veterans Provisions in the FY2008 National
>Defense Authorization Act," February 13, 2008:
>
>      http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34371.pdf
>
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