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NGA’s Long Steps Down; Cardillo Next Director

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Monday, June 2nd, 2014

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NGA’s Long Steps Down; Cardillo Next Director

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Robert Cardillo. Photo: ODNI.

The Defense Department said Monday Robert Cardillo will be the next director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as current director Letitia Long announced her decision to retire, effective later this year. Long took the reins at NGA in August 2010, helping shift the agency from providing static products, such as maps, to providing geospatial intelligence services that enable users to access information that provides “time and place” context, DoD said. Before NGA, Long served as the deputy director of…

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