The United States' current economic turmoil will force the U.S. Defense Department and intelligence community to work together more closely than ever on satellite systems, the chairman of a congressional intelligence oversight panel said.rnThe battle for space program funding between the two sides must come to an end, and both also would be well served by collaborating more widi NASA, U.S. Rep. C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said at a Nov. 18 media breakfast here hosted by the Space Foundation. Ruppersberg-er's House Intelligence subcommittee on technical and tactical intelligence spent a year studying the issues that have long plagued the U.S. national security space enterprise. The resulting "Report on Challenges and Recommendations For United States Overhead Architecture," released in October, was based on interviews with U.S. government national security officials and industry executives.
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