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NGA’s Latency For Imagery Improves But More Data Requires More Compute, Whitworth Says

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, March 10th, 2025

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NGA’s Latency For Imagery Improves But More Data Requires More Compute, Whitworth Says

Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency (NGA Photo)

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is processing imagery 80 percent faster than it did a year ago. However, as satellite constellations and the amount of related data increase, the latency gains could diminish without more computing power, NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth said on Monday. Whitworth described the drop-in latency times in terms of “running inference,” which refers to running the agency’s artificial intelligence models against the imagery data to automatically find targets of interest for warfighters and decisionmakers.…

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