How drones can navigate without GPS
Absolute positioning is critical in contested and denied environments.
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Firewalls won’t protect GEOINT companies. Cyber resilience will, if we act now.
As cyberattacks increasingly aim to disrupt operations rather than just steal data, GEOINT providers need models that can continue operations under attack, Norman Laudermilch writes.
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In contested seas, autonomy must anticipate, not just navigate
As missions stretch farther and comms grow less reliable, predictive software could become the edge that keeps missions afloat.
NGA slates $700M for AI data labeling; launches standard model push
Data labeling is key to enabling the AI model to properly separate friend from foe, explained Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth.
NGA to gather more unclassified economic, military intel from commercial sats
"Commercial analytics-as-a-service, or the purchase of analysis vice pixels, means that we can integrate commercial capabilities faster into our existing products and services (e.g., object detection)," an NGA spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
ICEYE to supply Ukraine with SAR satellite imagery via Ukrainian foundation
“This agreement is a significant step in responding to the Government of Ukraine’s urgent request for critical earth observation data and it will greatly benefit our Armed Forces," said Serhiy Prytula, whose eponymous foundation crowdsources kit for the Ukrainian military.
NGA working with NRO to target satellite imagery ‘deep fakes’
NGA's Chief Information Office Mark Andress said he has an entire engineering team dedicated to certifying the accuracy and validity of imagery products and the metadata around them.
Satellites at the center: Inside the Pentagon’s next-gen space architecture
From emerging data networks to missile tracking and cyber resilience, Breaking Defense’s latest eBook brings together essential reporting on the evolving role of satellites in national security.
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From Sensor To Decision: Maxar’s Combined Offerings Support Next-Gen National Security Missions
Space-based intelligence for rapid decision-making will be a critical tool in the multiforce, multidomain landscape of the near future.
NGA Must ‘Treat Data As A Strategic Asset,’ Director Says
"Kind of like the mountains Lewis and Clark had to scale, data is a mountain we have to climb," NGA Director Vice Adm. Robert Sharp said at GEOINT 2021.
Commercial GEOINT Raises Questions About NGA, IC Roles, Says Gordon
"Is the coin of the realm the 70 years of craft that they have, or is it about what they uniquely hold?" asked former ODNI deputy Sue Gordon.
NGA Gears Up For All Domain Ops
NGA is tapping industry for new capabilities, such as "persistent change detection" and "geolocation" of potential targets such as an adversary's ships.
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Winning the cognitive domain — A methodology built for democratic constraints
The challenge for Western democratic institutions is not a lack of capability — it is a structural one.
Under Senate’s Eye, NRO, NGA Stress Commercial Imagery Plans
"NGA expects unclassified space-based geospatial data to become ubiquitous and widely available," says NGA's David Gauthier.
NGA Taps Maxar To Do Land Use Change Detection
Maxar will provide updates and enhancements using "its sophisticated change detection model and deliver land cover and classification solutions."
NGA Future Is ‘Hybrid’ Of Commercial, IC Sources: Gauthier
"[T]he trend is that a larger percentage of our work will be able to be accomplished using commercial systems than in the past," says Gauthier.
NGA To Tap Commercial Data On Military Targets
"Basically, if that's where the bulk of the data is, then we will work where the data exists," David Gauthier, head of NGA's Commercial and Business Operations Group, said about using commercial imagery analysis.