A NEW STRATEGIC MINDSET Mr. David Gauthier Director of Advanced Concepts, NGA/OPG

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GEOINT Reinvented

Digital Production

Age of Content Age of Context

Object-Based Production

Persistent GEOINT

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Opportunities for Change

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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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Model our knowledge: Selling Girl Scout Cookies

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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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1992   2011  

Expand use of non-traditional sources

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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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