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Kerr named to head U.S. spy satellite office

Via the EE Times.

Donald Kerr, a former senior CIA and FBI official, was named director of the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the Defense Department said Friday (July 22).

NRO builds and operates U.S. spy satellites and provides reconnaissance images and data to the CIA and the Defense Department.

Kerr is an intelligence veteran and an engineer. According to his CIA profile, he holds a Ph.D in plasma physics and microwave electronics from Cornell University. He previously served as the CIA's deputy director for science and technology. He also served as assistant director of the FBI, where he was responsible for its Laboratory Division.

He also directed the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1979 to 1985.

posted by Fergie @ 7/22/2005 12:06:00 PM