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Intelligence Community

NGA Gains AI Effort From OSD With Aim To Speed Geospatial Intel To Warfighters

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 25th, 2022

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AURORA, Colo.—The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) will pick up an ongoing effort to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) being applied to geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) with the goal being to quickly leverage the technology to provide warfighters and decisionmakers at the pace of their missions, the head of the agency said on Monday. The shift of the GEOINT AI services component from Project Maven to NGA from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence…

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