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NGA Director Suggests Commercial Imagery Meeting COCOM Timelines

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Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), suggested last week that commercial imagery was meeting the timelines of combatant commands (COCOMs). "Our day is really predicated on what can we get for the COCOMs, for the Chairman [of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] and the Secretary [of Defense], and, of course, for the rest of the cabinet-level readership, the DNI [director of national intelligence], and the IC [intelligence community], but there's so much overlap, frankly,…

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