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NGA’s Munsell Aligning CAIO Efforts Against Agency’s AI Goals

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 7th, 2024

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NGA’s Munsell Aligning CAIO Efforts Against Agency’s AI Goals

Mark Munsell, NGA Chief AI Officer and Director, Data & Digital Innovation. Photo: NGA

Advocating for and ensuring his agency is investing in artificial intelligence capabilities is the “strong hand” that Mark Munsell will wield as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) first AI chief and the vast bulk of these efforts will be applied toward NGA’s high-level goals for applying the technology. The other hand, which Munsell called the “check hand,” is ensuring that NGA applies AI responsibly, safely, within the proper boundaries, does testing and evaluation, and that other users of geospatial intelligence…

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