NRO

At Booz Allen Hamilton’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia, the firm’s vice presidents specializing in intelligence oversee two types of contract: offer two types of services: training executives and supplying critical systems to the agencies. Virtually all of the latter call on its services: NSA, DIA, CIA, FBI, NRO, and NGA (see graph). Even IARPA, the newly- established R&D unit of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), relies of the firm’s technology assessments.

U.S. Air Force Space Command and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) have joined together to create a new program to advise the military and intelligence community on how to protect space assets.

The U.S. government continues to spend money in secret at record levels, according to a new analysis. Total spending on classified programs -- secret weapons, spying operations, eavesdropping satellites and the like -- is expected to be around $31.9 billion next year, roughly on par with spending from the past two years, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), a Washington, D.C.-based defense think tank.

The USA is generally known to have a spy network consisting of 16 main agencies, however there are all sorts of companies getting involved in the turning of the intelligence gears. Here is an overview of the main 16 Intelligence Agencies operating for the United States of America.