#DC: What is the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency? Francis Rose, FedGovToday.com
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🗓️ 27 September 2023
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#DC: What is the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency? Francis Rose, FedGovToday.com
https://fedgovtoday.com/2023/09/26/shutdown-impact-on-procurement-new-mission-at-nga-more-cx-in-the-pma/
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| 0:36.6 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelors. |
| 0:38.6 | FedGov today, Francis Rose, the host of FedGov today, is conversations with professionals in the federal government, |
| 0:45.6 | the more than two million people, and very much attached to the federal government in Washington and across the country. |
| 0:52.6 | I enjoy learning about what we're now told is going to be shut down, depending upon how it goes in the U.S. Congress. |
| 0:59.6 | So one of the things I'm learning from Francis, and there's a podcast twice a week, and the TV show is on Sunday morning, Channel 7, and the nation's capital, |
| 1:08.6 | is the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, which Francis tells me I can shorten his geo-int. |
| 1:16.6 | Francis has conversations with Vice Admiral Frank Wetworth, extremely revelatory about what the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency does, |
| 1:25.6 | in this age of AI, quantum computing, commercial imagery, and all other manner of collecting intelligence information that can be used immediately by combatants. |
| 1:38.6 | Francis, I'm very good evening to you. Your conversation with the Admiral was inspiring, because I love maps, and that's what they do. |
| 1:47.6 | It's not a map. It's real-time intelligence. Every morning, I will always think of this when it happens. |
| 1:54.6 | At 8.45am, every morning, all over the world, everybody reports in. What are they up to? What do they do? What's their mission, Francis? Good evening, too. |
| 2:04.6 | Good evening, John. Thanks for having me on the program, as always. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency says that its mission is, I'm quoting, |
| 2:13.6 | to provide world-class geo-spatial intelligence and lead the global geo-int enterprise, and the subset of that is another quote, |
| 2:24.6 | the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geo-special information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. |
| 2:35.6 | The entire Earth, I will add to that description. The nature of NGA's work has changed dramatically over the last 10 or 15 years, especially. |
| 2:45.6 | It wasn't that long ago that to get pictures of the Earth was a proprietary thing. Now we all have access to that information on our phones, thanks in part to the federal government and NGA in particular. |
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