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NGA Director Outlines AI Effort For Warning Indicators

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 27th, 2024

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NGA Director Outlines AI Effort For Warning Indicators

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is moving toward an artificial intelligence-based program called ASPEN that will help the agency provide warnings to its customers based on changes in behavior worldwide, the agency’s director said on Wednesday. Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth said warning is a bigger challenge than the agency’s well-known mission of providing targeting data to decision-makers and combatant commands. “Warning is a is actually a larger mission because it's so global,” he said during a discussion hosted by the…

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