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21-078 Pre NGA Commercial Data and Analytic Services Industry Day QA ApprovedForPublicRelease.pdf

Posted: Nov. 12, 2020 • Type: .pdf • Size: 0.53MB

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Industry Day Presentation: The document provides insights into the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) interest in commercial data and analytic services. NGA is focused on leveraging various architectures for remote sensing collection capabilities and exploring innovative contracting methods to meet mission requirements. The agency emphasizes the need for non-traditional GEOINT data sources, including artificial intelligence and machine learning-derived data, to enhance analytical capabilities. NGA seeks commercial services to augment production capacity for describing global military and economic facilities, monitor specific topics globally, and provide spatially referenced aggregate statistics. The document also addresses the cancellation of a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) and NGA's strategy for evaluating commercial analytical services.

The NGA's Source Commercial & Business Operations Group (SC) outlines requirements for FY21, highlighting a shift towards non-traditional GEOINT data sources and the importance of high pedigree products that analysts can readily use. The agency aims to augment its analytics with a wider variety of analysis-ready information from commercial non-traditional services. Additionally, NGA is exploring ways to evaluate competing services effectively and mitigate challenges in assessing commercial analytical services. The document also touches on NGA's interest in centralizing tactical imagery and video collection and analysis efforts across the Department of Defense (DoD), emphasizing the importance of structured data from open sources and geo-referenced information.

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