So that by the end of the Johnson administration, the intelligence community had a capability to do what it had not been able to do at the time of the Cuban missile crisis.
The government also decided in the late 1980s to increase the organic capability maintained by the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration -- the Ready Reserve Force (RRF).
The Center for Security Policy today questioned the Bush Administration's failure to put a proposed acquisition by the Japanese firm Komatsu of a unique American high technology capability on hold, pending a thorough investigation of its national security implications and appropriate decisions concerning steps needed to ensure that such a capability remains available to the United States.
Over the next several years, the Clinton Administration put in place a long-term budget projection and a new national security strategy and conducted more detailed force capability analyses.