Whether the error lay with the Central Intelligence Agency or the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, some American experts say the bombing is the result of an overly complex and outmoded intelligence bureaucracy.
The proposed cuts are likely to have an impact on long-term contracts between the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and U.S.-based satellite-imagery providers DigitalGlobe Inc.
The company books half its revenues from the U.S. government, namely the NextView satellite imagery program, run by the Department of Defense's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
