The National Reconnaissance Office, the US intelligence agency in charge of the nation’s spy satellites, announced that it will award billions of dollars in contracts to three commercial satellite businesses that capture photographs of Earth over the next decade. In a statement, the NRO said it was the “largest-ever commercial ...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for vigorous competition with arch-foe China to preserve the existing global order but hastened to add that Washington did not seek a “Cold War.” In a speech at George Washington University, the top US diplomat outlined the Biden administration’s approach as “invest, ...