Priorities for GEOINT Research at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (2006) / Chapter Skim
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2 The Evolving Mission of NGA
2 The Evolving Mission of NGA
Pages 9-22
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The agency absorbed in entirety the former Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) , the Central Imagery Office, the Defense Dissemination Program Office, and the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC)
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NGA's new mission is to "provide timely, relevant, and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security." GEOINT at NGA includes information on weather, order of battle, intelligence reports, navigation safety, and other forms of intelligence. These information sources are placed into geospatial context using standard data products, including imagery, baseline intelligence data, digital topography and bathymetry, feature information, and gravity data.
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On the other hand, limitations of the current environment include deficiencies in surmising plans and intent from imagery and geospatial information, restricted information access under unfavorable conditions, dealing with time lags in data acquisition and use, and the lack of tools and methods for information uncertainty and ambiguity. Technological changes are impacting NGA's day-to-day operations, and the next-generation systems reflect the change from a Cold War mission that demanded maps and imagery information on static targets, offered limited revisit capability, and had low time sensitivity.
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A special forces team has been dispatched and has the location under observation. This team is cooperating with a Russian government special security team, who have positioned motion detectors, gas and magnetic field detectors, and web-cams.
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It currently supports eight key occupational codes directly related to geospatial intelligence: aeronautical analysis, cartography, geodetic science, geospatial analysis, imagery analysis, marine analysis, regional analysis and imagery, and geospatial sciences. Increasingly it also includes management and other skill sets.
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This attracted 68 pre-proposals, with 29 full proposals involving 53 universities, in five technology areas (geospatial information science, computer science, physical science, image science and neuroscience, mathematics)
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These investments contribute to multiple academic disciplines, affect all of NGA's mission imperatives, follow a variety of organizational models, and address different systems architectures. The InnoVision Directorate forecasts future environments, defines future needs, establishes plans to align resources, and provides technology and process solutions to lead NGA, with its customers and partners, into the future.
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Research Initiatives -- Service Academy Research Grants -- Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowships · InnoVision · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · National Security Agency Disruptive Technology Office · Department of Defense Advanced Concept Technology Demon strations (ACTDs) · Cooperative Research and Development Agreements · Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
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This research provides the fundamental science support for NGA's applied and advanced research programs to address shortfalls in imagery and geospatial science and technology supporting the National System for Geospatial Intelligence. The component programs under the NARP funding umbrella include research initiatives with universities, HBCU-MIs, and service academies.
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InnoVision Beyond its sponsorship of academic geospatial science and technology research and development (R&D) , the InnoVision Directorate directly funds other types of geospatial R&D projects and sponsors R&D through other agencies and organizational means.
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Disruptive Technology Office NSA's DTO fosters collaboration throughout the intelligence world with the technical and scientific communities in academia, the national laboratories, and the commercial sector. DTO then helps transfer emerging solutions to the intelligence community technology centers for integration and implementation.
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This architecture supports a wide range of NGA's mission imperatives and allows the incorporation of advances in research from a variety of geospatial science and technology disciplines.
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In conjunction with modernizing NGA infrastructure, the engagement of both basic and applied academic research with an enterprise system integrator will connect academic and industry research networks, thus expanding scientific expertise nationwide. Just as importantly, it will facilitate transition of research to practice for innovations within the intelligence community and will speed the transition to GEOINT2.
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Chartered in 1999 as a private, independent, nonprofit corporation, In-Q-Tel is an evolving blend of corporate strategic venture capital, business, nonprofit, and government R&D models. In-Q-Tel leverages third-party money and resources to deliver technology solutions that the intelligence community could not afford to develop on its own and, thus, can deliver technologies that will be supported over the long run by government and commerce.
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