death_place death_date birth_place president title birth_date order term_start article_title term_end name
washington , d.c. 16 january 2003 elizabethtown , pennsylvania lyndon b. johnson/richard m. nixon deputy director of the national reconnaissance office 16 july 1911 second september 1 , 1965 james q. reber
 june 30 , 1969 james q. reber
james q. reber

james q. reber -lrb- july 16 , 1911 -- january 16 , 2003 -rrb- was the second deputy director of the national reconnaissance office -lrb- ddnro -rrb- .
reber earned a doctor of philosophy degree in international relations at the university of chicago in 1939 .
in 1943 , he began his government career with state department , as a foreign affairs and economic specialist .
he later joined the central intelligence agency in 1950 , and did various planning and coordination activities until 1957 .
in 1955 , reber became the chairman of the ad hoc requirements committee -lrb- arc -rrb- , thereby assuming a major leadership role in the national reconnaissance community .
the arc developed prioritized lists of intelligence requirements and u-2 targets during overflights of the soviet union .
when the committee was taken over by the united states intelligence board in 1960 and renamed the committee on overhead reconnaissance -lrb- comor -rrb- , he continued as chairman .
activities of the comor eventually morphed into prioritzing targets for early imaging satellite missions .
reber served as ddnro from 1 september 1965 to 30 june 1969 .
he was instrumental in fostering an effective working relationship between the cia and department of defense in the early days of the nro and the national reconnaissance program .
after his time at the nro , dr. reber became the chairman of the usib 's signals intelligence -lrb- sigint -rrb- committee , retiring from government service in july 1972 .
reber was also an amateur photographer and outdoorsman whose 1974 book , `` potomac portrait '' , collects together his photographs taken while hiking and kayaking the furthest reaches of the potomac river .
reber died on january 16 , 2003 .
