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Intelligence Community

Maven Speeding Ability To Comb Through Imagery, NGA’s Whitworth Says

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, March 21st, 2024

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Maven Speeding Ability To Comb Through Imagery, NGA’s Whitworth Says

Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGA photo.

Analysts have sorted through 40 percent more sensor imagery in the past year than previously due to assistance from computer vision technology that is helping to find potential targets, the head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) said this week. The computer vision capability is based on NGA Maven, the agency’s artificial intelligence-backed set of algorithms that its analysts use to find anomalies in images obtained by satellite-based sensors and other platforms to find potential targets for decisionmakers and…

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