"I don't want to take a very expensive, very, very capable [alternative] PNT system that belongs on, let's say, a Stryker platform or an Abrams tank or something like that, and ... stick it on the robot that is the one that I'm training to take first contact," Michael Monteleone, head of the Army's new All-Domain Sensing CFT, explained.
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.
Partnerships with outside industry are a cornerstone of the kingdom’s ambitious growth strategy.
"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.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The MQ-9B and Gambit Series represent parallel capabilities that address global challenges for security head-on.
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 […]