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NGA Developing New Project Around Non-Standard Mission Planning

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, May 21st, 2025

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NGA Developing New Project Around Non-Standard Mission Planning

ST. LOUIS—To better exploit data collected from uncrewed systems, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has initiated a new project focused on commercial analytics to better serve its mission partners, an agency official said on Tuesday. Project Pteron is helping the agency’s “efforts around non-standard mission planning,” Devin Brande, director of NGA’s Commercial Operations Group, told attendees at GEOINT 2025. Uncrewed and autonomous systems have a “different risk profile” than manned systems, and “consume and exploit data differently,” all off which…

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