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A NEW STRATEGIC MINDSET Mr. David Gauthier Director of Advanced Concepts, NGA/OPG
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Presented to USGIF ABI Working Group December 17, 2015
GEOINT Reinvented
Digital Production
Age of Content Age of Context
Object-Based Production
Persistent GEOINT
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Critical Focus Areas
Automate data and information services
Model our knowledge dynamically online
Expand use of non-traditional sources
Evolve culture and workforce
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Automate data and information services
Assist analysis on the most
difficult questions
Train the machine with human expertise
Identify interesting
information in the noise
Automate repeatable
tasks
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Automate data and information services
From printed information…
…to online knowledge
Models
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• Explicit knowledge has been written down, described verbally, or captured in diagrams or documents
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• Tacit knowledge is gained through experience and is not, has not, or cannot effectively be communicated
• Analytic models capture both explicit and tacit knowledge
Model our knowledge dynamically online
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Model our knowledge: Heroin Production Harvest Production Transport
• Wisdom of crowds • Machine understanding • Systems thinking • Combines processes
with observable indicators
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Evolve our culture and workforce
Today’s Workforce: Specialized
Workforce 2021: Flexible & Adaptable
Transitional Workforce: New Skills, New
Linkages
NGA will build on the legacy of our strengths to create the GEOINT workforce of the future
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Commercial 3-5 Servings
Open Sources Use Sparingly
OPIR, MASINT 1-2 Servings
Airborne 2-3 Servings
SIGINT 2-3 Servings
NTM 6-11 Servings
2012
Expand use of non-traditional sources
2022
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Industry Assistance
• Ensure data interoperability and build cooperative capabilities ► “Data at Rest” ► “Source independence” ► Help solve our issues with identification and access management, Cross Domain
services, and integration of new sources
• Develop and integrate unclassified GEOINT services ► Information services instead of more pixels ► Help integrate and expand multi-layer capabilities
• Design to use IC knowledge models ► No system is a stovepipe ► Systems will operate from our knowledge in the cloud
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Persistence is the vehicle that will drive us forward…
“We’ll move from seeing to sensing – from sensing to understanding – from understanding to anticipating – because our adversaries demand it and our customers deserve it. All of this is enabled as we move from blinking to persisting.” Robert Cardillo, Director NGA
C u s t o m e r - C e n t r i c | S u c c e e d i n t h e O p e n | C o h e r e n c e f r o m C h a o s
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Ø A focused intelligence strategy to detect change, characterize activity, infer behavior, and discover unknowns
Ø Uses the full spectrum of GEOINT sensors and phenomenologies to address the most challenging Intelligence questions
Persistent GEOINT: A New Strategic Mindset
Analysis
Collec-on
Knowledge
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