New NGA Tech Strategy Aims At AI Integration

New NGA Tech Strategy Aims At AI Integration
New NGA Tech Strategy Aims At AI Integration

NGA’s 2020 Technology Focus Areas are “what we’re looking for;” whereas the upcoming technology strategy outlines “how we’d like to change,” explains Mark Munsell, NGA chief technology officer.

COVID-19: NGA Pumps Unclassified Data Use, Says Vice Adm. Sharp

COVID-19: NGA Pumps Unclassified Data Use, Says Vice Adm. Sharp
COVID-19: NGA Pumps Unclassified Data Use, Says Vice Adm. Sharp

“I think the big change that you’ll see is that some of those things are going to become the new norm for us, the new way of doing business,” Sharp said of NGA’s telework practices forced by the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘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.…

DigitalGlobe Wins Commercial Imagery War; What Will NGA Do?

WASHINGTON: Someone had to lose in the battle for survival in the commercial spy satellite business. Yesterday’s announcement that DigitalGlobe and GeoEye would “combine” left it clear that DigitalGlobe had won. After all the new company will be called DigitalGlobe and the CEO and chairman will be from that company, with GeoEye’s CEO playing an…

White House To Reconsider Commercial Space Imagery Policy

NEAR CHANTILLY, VA.: The White House plans to reconsider the existing policy governing the use of commercial imagery by the Pentagon and the intelligence community, raising even more questions about the direction of the commercial imagery market. The head of space policy at the National Security Council, Chirag Parikh, is reportedly leading the effort. Several…

Intel Agencies Scramble to Aid Irene Response, Cleanup: EXCLUSIVE

Washington: They spend most of their time analyzing maps for buried bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq or looking at what turned out to Osama bin Laden’s last residence, but intelligence analysts sometimes help out on the home front as well. As Hurricane Irene sends the East Coast scrambling to find shelter, clear out its drains…