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DoD Directive 5105.23 National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), June 28, 2011, updated October 29, 2015

Budget Documents

• FY 2014 Congressional Budget Justification (Redacted Version) (released November 2013)
• FY 2013 Congressional Budget Justification (Redacted Version) (released December 2012)
• FY 2012 Congressional Budget Justification (Redacted Version) (released August 2012)
• FY 2011 Congressional Budget Justification (Redacted Version) (released May 2011)
• FY 2010 Congressional Budget Justification (Redacted Version) (released June 2010)
• FY 2009 Congressional Budget Justification (Redacted Version) (released July 2009)
• FY 2007 Congressional Budget Justification (Redacted Version) (released July 2009)

Other Resources

• Spies in Space: Reflections on National Reconnaissance and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory by Courtney V.K. Homer, Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance, May 2019
• Special Review of the NRO Polygraph Program, NRO Office of Inspector General, 31 March 2014
• HEXAGON and GAMBIT Declassification Initiative, memorandum from NRO director Keith R. Hall, 7 March 1997 (courtesy of Jeffrey Richelson)
• NRO Mission Ground Station Declassification "Questions and Answers", 15 October 2008
• National Reconnaissance Program: FY 2008-2009 Congressional Budget Justification (Redacted Version)
• National Reconnaissance Office Review and Redaction Guide For Automatic Declassification Of 25-Year-Old Information, 2008 Edition
• Open Source Reporting on NRO Mission Patches, memo from the NRO Director, January 29, 2008
• Out of the Black: The Declassification of the NRO by Jeffrey T. Richelson, National Security Archive, September 18, 2008
• National Reconnaissance Office Accomplishments, July 2008
• NRO Review and Redaction Guide for Automatic Declassification of 25-Year-Old Information, 2006 Edition
• FY 2006 Congressional Budget Justification (Redacted Version)
• National Reconnaissance: Journal of the Discipline and Practice, second unclassified issue, 2009-2010
• National Reconnaissance: Journal of the Discipline and Practice, first unclassified issue, 2005
• POPPY Program Fact Sheet, declassified September 12, 2005
• Selected NRO Directives
• NRO Budget: FY 1998-1999 Congressional Budget Justification (Redacted Version)
• Quality Control Review of the NRO Office of Inspector General by the DoD Inspector General, June 2004
• NRO Working Launch Manifest 2003-2006, as of 24 March 2003 (excerpted from NRO Office of Space Launch Program Overview for California Space Authority)
• A Critical View of the National Reconnaissance Office by Dave Thompson, President & CEO, Spectrum Astro, at the 18th National Space Symposium, April 11, 2002.
• CSNR Bulletin, first issue of the newsletter of the NRO Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance, Number 2001-1 (3.2 MB PDF file)
• Pentagon Briefing on Space Transformation with Under Secretary of the Air Force and NRO Director Peter Teets, February 7, 2002
• Report of the National Commission for the Review of the National Reconnaissance Office, November 15, 2000
• Remarks to the National Network of Electro-Optical Manufacturing Technologies Conference -- 9 February 1998 -- Keith Hall Director of the National Reconnaissance Office
• SAFSP Alumni Holiday Party -- Presented By Keith R. Hall, Director, National Reconnaissance Office 6 December 1997
• Mr. Keith Hall Interview with Aerospace Reporters 30 April 1997
• D/NRO Jeffrey Harris on Military Space, 6 April 1995
• Defining the Future of the NRO for the 21st Century [The Jeremiah Report] 26 AUGUST 1996
• Small Satellite Review Panel - 28 June 1996.
• NRO Declassification Announced, DoD news release, September 18, 1992. "There is a National Reconnaissance Office...."
• Final Report of NRO Director Hans Mark, memo for the Secretary of Defense and the DCI, October 5, 1979
• NRO Memo on Declassifying the "Fact of" Satellite Reconnaissance, memo for the deputy DCI, 8 September 1978
• Avoidance of Coorbital Intercept (Redacted), March 1971
• Real Time Readout: Memo from Comirex to the DCI (1969) on a real-time readout satellite reconnaissance system, 17 Feb 1969
• Agreement for Reorganization of the National Reconnaissance Program, 11 August 1965
• Wheelon Meeting with Land "on what new satellite system the Govt should pursue," 16 February 1965
• Duties of the NRO Deputy Director (1963), memo for the director
• Proposed Changes in the Operation and Organization of the National Reconnaissance Office, memorandum for the CIA deputy director (research), 11 January 1963
• Report of a Special Panel on Satellite Reconnaissance, Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Science & Technology, 25 August 1960
• Intelligence Requirements for Satellite Reconnaissance Systems of which SAMOS is an Example, memorandum for the US Intelligence Board, 5 July 1960