No, there is not much cross-pollination between science agencies and the military agencies. When I was in astronomy one of the professors in my department was

No, there is not much cross-pollination between science agencies and the military agencies. When I was in astronomy one of the professors in my department was on the committee to figure out what to do with the old telescopes that the NRO donated to NASA. From what he said, no one in the astronomy community had any idea that these telescopes existed and they learned about them from the New York Times, just like everybody else. It has turned out to have put the astronomy community in a bit of an awkward position. Although the telescopes are free, they still need to be outfitted with appropriate instruments, and, of course, launched into space. Each of those projects costs roughly as much as the telescope itself, so the donation really only covers ~1/3 of the total cost of putting a working telescope in space. Unfortunately, the community just doesn't have the budget to do that. Furthermore, the telescopes aren't really ideal for astronomy since they were designed to look down rather than up. (That is, they are designed to focus on relatively nearby objects rather than on objects "at infinity.") But politically we can't turn the telescopes down, since that projects a bad image to Congress. Beggars can't be choosers, after all, so we have to look grateful while we try to scrape together the funds to get something useful out of them.