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With Foundation In Place, Contracting Opportunities Next For NGA’s Maven

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 15th, 2023

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With Foundation In Place, Contracting Opportunities Next For NGA’s Maven

Mark Munsell, left, director of NGA's Data and Digital Innovation Directorate, speaking at the GEOINT 2023 Symposium in May. Photo: U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has completed foundational work for its Maven program and is getting ready to begin soliciting industry for business opportunities related to the program, which largely uses an artificial intelligence capability called computer vision to sift through vast amounts of images to detect and classify targets of interest for warfighters and the intelligence community. “You’ll start seeing as we as we look to the next few months a lot more activity from the Maven office in…

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