SecAF Nominee Kendall Expected To Deep Dive On Space Acquisition

SecAF Nominee Kendall Expected To Deep Dive On Space Acquisition
SecAF Nominee Kendall Expected To Deep Dive On Space Acquisition

UPDATED: To add comment from former SecAF Heather Wilson and HASC Chair Adam Smith. WASHINGTON: Frank Kendall has a reputation as a tough nut — having wrestled to the ground any number of messy DoD programs when he led the Obama Pentagon’s acquisition shop —  including the troubled OCX operating system for GPS, and the…

IC Must Embrace Public Data to Use AI Effectively: Sue Gordon

IC Must Embrace Public Data to Use AI Effectively: Sue Gordon
IC Must Embrace Public Data to Use AI Effectively: Sue Gordon

To stay ahead of adversaries, the IC must change its internal “data ownership” culture that allows those who collect data to believe “they are the ones who get to determine how it’s used,” says Sue Gordon.

Industry Worries Friction Twixt NRO-NGA On Commercial Imagery

Industry Worries Friction Twixt NRO-NGA On Commercial Imagery
Industry Worries Friction Twixt NRO-NGA On Commercial Imagery

NGA and NRO “have significantly overlapping Venn diagrams,” one industry source said, and they are still trying to “sort that through.” He added, “It’s not a nice clean line.”

NGA’s Sharp: Modernizing NGA’s IT and Ground Key To Predicting Events

NGA’s Sharp: Modernizing NGA’s IT and Ground Key To Predicting Events
NGA’s Sharp: Modernizing NGA’s IT and Ground Key To Predicting Events

“If you’re looking for an area to partner with us, I highly recommend you focus on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Augmentation — what we call AAA,” Vice Adm. Bob Sharp the industry audience at GEOINT 2019 in San Antonio today.

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Ground Stations Can Boost Mix Of Small & Exquisite Sats: Raytheon

Ground Stations Can Boost Mix Of Small & Exquisite Sats: Raytheon
Ground Stations Can Boost Mix Of Small & Exquisite Sats: Raytheon

Modern space strategy, with its focus on resilience, requires “understanding the capabilities of each satellite and managing them as a constellation:” Jane Chappell, vice president of Raytheon’s Global Intelligence Solutions (GIS) mission area. Advertisement

NGA To Offer Data To Industry For Partnerships

NGA To Offer Data To Industry For Partnerships
NGA To Offer Data To Industry For Partnerships

GEOINT: It all began over very old old Scotch at New York’s famed Explorer Club. The top two leaders of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Robert Cardillo and Susan Gordon, met with Anthony Vinci, now NGA’s director of plans and programs, to discuss ways to get more value from the agency’s incredibly valuable pools of…

Cardillo: 1 Million Times More GEOINT Data In 5 Years

Cardillo: 1 Million Times More GEOINT Data In 5 Years
Cardillo: 1 Million Times More GEOINT Data In 5 Years

UPDATED: Adds Details On New Data Partnerships; IC Works With DepSecDef Video Task Force GEOINT: To cope with the gargantuan increase in data sure to come, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency must broaden its outreach to industry and the civil community, and, at the same time, ensure that it does a better job of ensuring…

Major NRO Spy Program Behind Schedule: DNRO Sapp

Major NRO Spy Program Behind Schedule: DNRO Sapp
Major NRO Spy Program Behind Schedule: DNRO Sapp

WASHINGTON: America’s spy satellite maker and operator, the National Reconnaissance Office, has one major satellite program at risk of not meeting its cost and schedule requirements, its director Betty Sapp says. In a rare moment of transparency, Sapp answered my question about the status of the agency’s programs at the Intelligence and National Security Summit…

NGA, NRO, NSA Joining DoD In Silicon Valley

NGA, NRO, NSA Joining DoD In Silicon Valley
NGA, NRO, NSA Joining DoD In Silicon Valley

GEOINT: The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) will be joining the Defense Department in Silicon Valley this summer, director Robert Cardillo says. The new office will be called “NGA Outpost Valley,” a more euphonious name than the Pentagon’s unwieldy DiuX. “It’s a beachhead that will have the authority to reach out to all innovation centers,”…

‘Everything We Can Do For Our French Counterparts We Are Doing:’ NGA Head

‘Everything We Can Do For Our French Counterparts We Are Doing:’ NGA Head
‘Everything We Can Do For Our French Counterparts We Are Doing:’ NGA Head

NGA HEADQUARTERS: If you want further proof of the damage that Edward Snowden has wrought on American intelligence capabilities, look at the relative ease with which the Paris terrorists planned, traveled and killed in Europe. “The adversary has gone and is going to school against our capabilities,” NGA Director Robert Cardillo told reporters here today.…

US Not Sure What Was Taken In OPM Hack: DNI Clapper

US Not Sure What Was Taken In OPM Hack: DNI Clapper
US Not Sure What Was Taken In OPM Hack: DNI Clapper

WASHINGTON: Hacks are hard to do damage assessments on. Just ask Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper about the Chinese theft of data from the Office of Personnel Management. “We don’t actually know what was actually exfiltrated,” Clapper told several hundred people at Georgetown University’s Healy Hall today. Why don’t we really know if 5.6 million fingerprints — or…

First Woman To Head Intel Agency Passes Torch; Cardillo Takes NGA Reins

First Woman To Head Intel Agency Passes Torch; Cardillo Takes NGA Reins
First Woman To Head Intel Agency Passes Torch; Cardillo Takes NGA Reins

NGA HEADQUARTERS: It’s not often defense reporters listen to a beautifully restrained brass quintet while working. But Tish Long, the outgoing director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, brought that kind of glamor to the increasingly crucial NGA, so we did get to listen to a unique and pleasing rendition of God Bless America, among other…

Tish Long Leaving NGA; DNI’s Robert Cardillo Will Be New Director

Tish Long Leaving NGA; DNI’s Robert Cardillo Will Be New Director
Tish Long Leaving NGA; DNI’s Robert Cardillo Will Be New Director

UPDATED: With DNI Clapper’s Comments WASHINGTON: Robert Cardillo, the man who has organized President Obama’s daily intelligence briefing and brought the first tablet to the White House for a president to see intelligence product firsthand, will be named the new director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Cardillo, the current Deputy Director of National Intelligence for…

Inside The President’s Daily Briefing; DNI Moves With Care To Tablets

Inside The President’s Daily Briefing; DNI Moves With Care To Tablets
Inside The President’s Daily Briefing; DNI Moves With Care To Tablets

TAMPA: The conventional image of an American president managing a crisis shows him thumbing through a briefing book on a desk in the Situation Room or Oval Office. The new standard may well become that of a president with an iPad in his lap or on his desk, keenly watching a video or flipping through…