The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the Department of Defense and a member of the United States Intelligence Community, whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security. NGA utilizes satellite reconnaissance data and collaborates with organizations like the U.S. Space Force, the Department of Defense, and international partners to provide geospatial intelligence for military and other operations. In 2024, NGA announced plans to create a space intelligence hub called the Joint Mission Management Center (JMMC) to better integrate data from various agencies. Keywords associated with NGA include: geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), satellite imagery, reconnaissance, and national security.
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Hawkeye 360 is delivering radio frequency data and analytics to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency as part of a pilot program to evaluate the information's value for intelligence activities.
Jan van Aardt of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology received a $194,000 award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for a remote-sensing project.
Rochester Institute of Technology will partner with researchers at Battelle on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency grant.
Jack Hild was selected for induction into the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Geospatial Intelligence Hall of Fame on 2020-11-18.
The National Reconnaissance Office buys imagery for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and will continue to procure the bulk of commercial geoint data from Maxar while also intending to award contracts to other commercial providers.
On 2020-11-05, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency added Planet and BlackSky imagery to the unclassified system that delivers geospatial data to the Defense Department, the intelligence community, and other government agencies.
Expanding G-EGD to new suppliers would help the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency determine how commercial imagery acquired from new providers will be made available to users.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will open a geospatial technology lab called Moonshot Labs at the T-REX innovation center in downtown St. Louis.
2020’s Prepare.ai speakers include Dr. Stacey Dixon, Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
NGA signed an agreement with BlackSky as part of a broker platform program to obtain access to a larger group of partner companies.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency supports both the U.S. intelligence community and the Department of Defense.
The National Reconnaissance Office acquires imagery that is used by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency analysts.
Norwegian Mapping Authority won National Geospatial Agency of the Year for efforts to improve access to geospatial data through cooperation, communication, and innovation.
Capella Space and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency entered a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement on 2020-06-25.
The National Reconnaissance Office is working closely with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the rest of the user community on its architecture for ingesting commercial imagery and other data.
The National Reconnaissance Office took over the acquisition of commercial satellite imagery from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2018.
The Department of Defense must submit to Congress within 180 days a report on integrating space capabilities with the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and U.S. Space Command.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has been purchasing Planet imagery since 2016.
In April the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency exercised a $5,900,000 option to buy current and archival Planet imagery for six months.
Partner organizations for xVIEW2 include NASA’s Earth Science Disasters Program, FEMA Region 9, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, Cal Fire, the California National Guard, the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, the United States Geological Survey, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Innovation Network.