The secretary of defense announced today the decision to appoint Scott F. Large
as director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), with the concurrence of
the director of national intelligence.
Prior to his appointment, Large served as the NRO's
principal deputy director, and recently as the director of source operations and
management in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Large joined the
Central Intelligence Agency in 1986 and has held a variety of increasingly
senior technical positions culminating as the associate deputy director for
science and technology. He then moved back to the NRO to serve as the director
of imagery systems acquisition and operations.
The NRO is a Department of Defense agency within the
intelligence community that designs, builds and operates the nation's
reconnaissance satellites. It is staffed by DoD and CIA personnel and funded
through the National Reconnaissance Program, part of the National Intelligence
Program.
For more information see http://www.nro.gov/ or contact
the NRO Public Affairs Office at (703) 808-1198.
