June 11, 2015

Defense Watch: Taking an Agile Approach to Sustaining 
NGA’s Analytic Power

By Michaela Mesquite, Analysis Technology Executive Team, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (www.nga.mil), Springfield, Va. When satellite imagery was novel and through the early years of geographic information system (GIS) computing, the predecessors to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) stood nearly alone in the world of remote sensing and GIS technology. Now geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) is commercialized,