NRO deputy: Days of humans in the loop 'are over'

By Shelley K. Mesch / December 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The National Reconnaissance Office plans to adopt artificial intelligence across all mission areas, according to a strategy released today. NRO aims to integrate AI “rapidly and responsibly” across the organization to “enhance the human capacity to innovate, strengthen decision making and improve mission outcomes,” according to NRO's new Artificial Intelligence Strategy . “When you’re talking about orders of magnitude more data, orders of magnitude more vehicles, orders of magnitude more processing capabilities and a customer base that’s expanding all around...

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