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{{Short description|National Reconnaissance Office component}}

The United States' [[National Reconnaissance Office]]'s '''Program A''' was a component of the [[National Reconnaissance Program]] (NRP).  Program A took the remnants of the Air Force Office of Special Projects (the successor to the ill-fated [[SAMOS (satellite)|SAMOS]] program office, and redesignated it and refocused its efforts onto the next generation of [[imagery intelligence]] gathering satellites (i.e. [[Corona (satellite)|CORONA/Discoverer]], [[Gambit (satellite)|KH-7/8 GAMBIT]], [[KH-9 HEXAGON]]).

==See also==
*[[National Reconnaissance Office]] (NRO)
*[[NRO Program B|Program B]] - NRO efforts run by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA)
*[[NRO Program C|Program C]] - NRO signals intelligences satellite efforts run by the [[United States Navy]]
*[[NRO Program D|Program D]] - NRO air reconnaissance efforts run by the [[United States Air Force]]

==References==
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