National Reconnaissance Office

The National Reconnaissance Office is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense. NRO is considered, along with the Central Intelligence Agency , National Security Agency , Defense Intelligence Agency , and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency , to be one of the "big five" U.S. intelligence agencies. The NRO is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, 2 miles south of the Washington Dulles International Airport.

It designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence to the NSA, imagery intelligence to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence to the DIA.

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