
KISSIMMEE, Fla.—Contracting shops at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) are shorthanded, just as they are across the federal government, but artificial intelligence technologies exist that can make the agency’s acquisition processes more efficient and faster, NGA’s new associate director for capabilities, said this week. Natural language processing, a form of machine learning technology, could be used to determine the best contracting approaches and develop lessons learned from past contracting, Trey Treadwell, who is also NGA’s component acquisition executive, said on…