U.S. President Barack Obama's 2013 military space budget request largely preserves the primary hardware procurement programs, and in that sense lives up to recent Pentagon assurances that space will remain a priority in an era of constrained spending. But there's more — or, one might say, less—than immediately meets the eye in this budget. Big trouble appears to be brewing in the classified realm, where indications are that the National Geospatial-lntelligence Agency is looking to scale back its commercial satellite imagery purchasing program next year.
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