Number: RL31369
Title: Imagery Intelligence: Issues for Congress
Authors: Richard A. Best, Jr., Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: Congress has been concerned with satellite imagery because of its critical importance and its high costs. Independent commissions established by Congress to assess the state of the imagery intelligence effort have concluded that significant changes need to be made in the way the nation's imagery effort is conducted. There is a consensus that greater emphasis should be placed on better collection targeting and improving processing, exploitation, an dissemination; that greater attention should be given to acquiring commercial imagery; and that the management of the imagery effort may need to be changed.
Pages: 32
Date: Updated April 12, 2002