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.

CNN: Transcript: David Kay at Senate hearing

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).

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Introduction

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.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy