Stephen Cambone, Pentagon intel chief, told the Daily Report that the move earlier this year that separated the leadership function of the National Reconnaissance Office from the Undersecretary of the Air Force was just one of a series of upcoming changes. He called the split “useful at this time” and a “sensible thing to have done.” Cambone said that, although there is nothing in the future to preclude a single leader as undersecretary and head of the NRO, “there is a great deal of change and innovation that is on the way.”
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall doesn’t see great value in trying to break the Sentinel ICBM program off as a separate budget item the way the Navy has with its ballistic-missile submarine program, saying such a move wouldn’t create any new money for the Air Force to spend on other…