As a small example of the size/scale of the money spent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches

"Air Force", "Space Force" are maybe well known to the general population, not many people outside of military/government/tech circles even know the NRO or NGIA exists or what the acronym means. The line gets a bit blurry between Air Force money spent, NRO, NSA, in some regards it's just better to think of it as buckets of how things get labeled within the larger DoD.

My personal favorite mission patch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-247#/media/File:NROL_39_ve...

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T-A 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

NGIA (Natural Gas Innovation Act? Nursery & Garden Industry Australia? Next Generation Identification and Awareness) had me stumped until I realized it must be a typo:

https://www.nga.mil/

	▲	walrus01 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not a typo despite the domain name, it's been called the NGIA in written documents for a long time. The use of "NGA" is actually somewhat recent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligen...