Today, NGA employees across all our locations observed a somber moment of silence as we joined the nation in remembering the victims who lost their lives and courageous first responders who answered their last call as a result of the #September11 terror attacks. 23 years have passed, but NGA will #NeverForget this event that forever changed the landscape of our nation. #PatriotDay 🇺🇸
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Defense and Space Manufacturing
Springfield, VA 85,844 followers
Both an intelligence agency and a combat support agency, NGA provides world-class geospatial intelligence, or GEOINT.
About us
Anyone who sails a ship, flies an aircraft, goes into harm’s way, makes national policy decisions, responds to disasters, or navigates with a cellphone, all rely on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGA delivers world-class geospatial intelligence, or GEOINT, that provides a decisive advantage to warfighters, policymakers, intelligence professionals and first responders. Both an intelligence agency and a combat support agency, NGA fulfills the president’s national security priorities in partnership with the intelligence community and Department of Defense. NGA is headquartered in Springfield, Virginia and has two major locations in St. Louis and Arnold, Missouri. Hundreds of NGA employees serve on support teams at U.S. military, diplomatic and allied locations around the world. For more information, visit us online at www.nga.mil.
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https://www.nga.mil/social.html
External link for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- Industry
- Defense and Space Manufacturing
- Company size
- 10,001+ employees
- Headquarters
- Springfield, VA
- Type
- Government Agency
- Founded
- 1996
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7500 GEOINT Drive
Springfield, VA 22150-7500, US
Employees at National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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Next up in the Defense Intelligence Agency and NGA #ICBirthdayTwins trivia series: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the National Photographic Interpretation Center provided vital intelligence to President Kennedy to inform negotiations. The Central Intelligence Agency was joined by this agency to provide analysts to staff the NPIC. ❓❓ Which agency am I? Comment your answers below. ⬇
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🚨🚨 Are you a high school student looking for valuable, real-world experience? Don’t miss out on the last few weeks to apply to NGA’s 2025 high school internship! Check out the qualifications and apply by Sept. 30. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gRK42TNk
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🚨 🚨 Check out the latest #NGATearline report that answers the question: Why are we tracking a native melon species in the Namibia desert? 🍈 🏜 This melon is a primary food source for the Topnaar people. As climate change disrupts melon cultivation, this could in turn cause political and economic unrest in the region. Learn more in this report made in collaboration with the Cook Engineering Design Center and Dartmouth College Department of Geography. 📰➡️ https://lnkd.in/eAEEgVQw
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Less than a week until the 2024 Geo-Resolution conference! 🗣 Don’t miss out on discussions from NGA Deputy Director Tonya Wilkerson, #SLU President Dr. Fred Pestello and Dr. Nadine Alameh, Executive Director of Taylor Geospatial Institute. Register today to attend virtually or in-person at Saint Louis University's Busch Student Center. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eeRXKVnt
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Happy birthday National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)! 🎉 Cheers to 63 years of leading the way in space-based reconnaissance. 📡 🌌 NGA is proud to partner with you, read more about our joint efforts here. 📰➡️ https://lnkd.in/gE3UUAEU
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#DYK NGA offers an Unclassified Data Lake with over 200TB of government and licensed commercial imagery for industry, government and academic partners studying #GEOINT. 🖥️ Not only do you receive access to the images, this system also provides the ability to interact and exploit geospatial features including SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog, #AI, machine learning, and computer vision, allowing you to build, train and deploy #ML models and algorithms across data holdings, at scale. Learn more about NGA’s Unclassified Data Lake and how you can gain access here. 📰 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eshJqjTg
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NGA is leading the way in responsible #AI accreditation and training. 🤝 We recently launched the pilot Accreditation of GEOINT AI Models, or AGAIM, which will expand the responsible use of #GEOINT AI. Our GEOINT Responsible AI Training, or G-R-E-A-T, will soon be available to coders and users of GEOINT AI. Learn more about NGA’s commitment to ethical AI practices. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gXUdc5Yj
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#DYK NGA and the Defense Intelligence Agency are birthday twins? 🤞🎂 #ICBirthdayTwins All month long, in celebration of our Oct. 1 birthday, we’re testing your knowledge of each agency—its history and mission—with trivia questions. Check out the first question of the series. ➡️ Upon becoming Director of Central Intelligence in 1995, John Deutch championed the concept of merging imagery and mapping assets which led to the establishment of this agency. ❓❓ Which agency am I? Comment your answers below ⬇
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#ICYMI, NGA Director of Data and Digital Innovation, Mark Munsell, recently spoke at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance #IntelSummit24 on NGA’s efforts training #AI algorithms on its unique trove of visual and textual data. “We’re sitting on two big sets of data, a gold mine of data, where we have images that nobody else in the world has,” said Munsell in reference to NGA’s archive of satellite imagery and intelligence reports. Read more on NGA’s efforts related to multi-modal data and what it means for national security. 📰➡️ https://lnkd.in/dPwsBtf8
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