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New Strategy Elevates Commercial GEOINT, Gets Everyone On Same Page, NGA Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, December 1st, 2021

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New Strategy Elevates Commercial GEOINT, Gets Everyone On Same Page, NGA Official Says

Artist impression of Capella SAR satellite. Background image courtesy NASA. Photo: Capella Space

A new strategy to improve the DoD and intelligence community (IC) use of private sector geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) aims to increase Pentagon and IC awareness of the utility of commercial imagery and related analytic service alternatives to classified, government-owned and operated sources, an official with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) said this week. Before the publication in November of the National System for Geospatial Intelligence Enterprise Commercial GEOINT Strategy, “there wasn’t anything written down” and with frequent job turnover…

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