Spy vs. G.I.? Satellite Battle Begins
The fed. administration, as part of an overall shrinking of the defense budget, wants to cut defense purchases of commercial satellite imagery to about $250 million from $540 million. Quoted in the
NY Times, Bill Wilt, a senior official with GeoEye, says, “The
debate is really between the military, which needs a lot of imagery but doesn’t need the highly classified imagery, and the intelligence community, which wants to keep the capability to produce its own imagery."