ST. LOUIS — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is planning a new procurement of commercial services to monitor activities from space. “We’re preparing for commercial advancements in analytics through our upcoming Luno contract,” NGA’s director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth said May 22 at the GEOINT 2023 symposium. Luno is the follow-on […]
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ST. LOUIS — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is working with NASA to develop a positioning and navigation system to guide visitors around the surface of the moon “as accurately and as safely as GPS does on Earth,” NGA’s director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth said May 22. In a keynote speech […]
ST. LOUIS — Synthetaic, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to analyze data from space and air sensors, announced May 22 that former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Robert Cardillo has joined its board of directors. The Wisconsin-based company made headlines earlier this year when its founder Corey Jaskolski […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will increase the ceiling for its Economic Indicator Monitoring program from $29.9 million to $60 million over five years WASHINGTON — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to double spending on contracts to monitor global economic activity from space, the agency said in a Nov. 15 notification. […]
WASHINGTON — The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency will begin a major upgrade of its cloud computing infrastructure after a protest over a $4.5 billion cloud-services contract was withdrawn by one of the competitors. General Dynamics Information Technology on Dec. 8 was selected for a 10-year deal to modernize NGA’s cloud […]
SAN FRANCISCO – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is eager to tap into unclassified commercial data services as part of its ongoing effort to track activity around world. Rather than fusing commercial data with government information or analysis to create new classified data products and services, though, the NGA is interested […]
ST. LOUIS – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to conduct an annual assessment of commercial satellite imagery like the Olympic-themed evaluation the organization conducted earlier this year. “Over the next four to five years, we expect to see 500 remote sensing satellites each year launching into space,” Dave Gauthier, director […]
ST. LOUIS — When analysts at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency need information about what’s going on in the world, they have to plough through large volumes of satellite imagery and other data. “That’s the old way of doing business,” said David Gauthier, director of NGA’s commercial and business operations group. […]