La Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Geoespacial pronto pedir\u00e1 a la industria que presente sus propuestas para los servicios de datos GEOINT, dijo hoy el director de la agencia, ya que busca aprovechar mejor las capacidades del sector comercial. Se trata de comprar nuevos servicios comerciales de datos GEOINT de m\u00faltiples proveedores, procesados con inteligencia artificial (IA).<\/p>\n
DoDIIS 2023 \u2014 The\u00a0National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency<\/a>\u00a0will soon ask industry to submit their proposals for GEOINT data services, the agency\u2019s director said today, as it looks to take better advantage of commercial sector capabilities.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s to purchase new commercial GEOINT data services from multiple vendors,\u201d Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth said at the Department of Defense Intelligence Information System, or\u00a0DoDIIS<\/a>, conference. \u201cThe resulting contracts are called Luno and A, luno, alpha \u2026 and they\u2019re intended to help us meet the increasing demands for commercial GEOINT. The goal is to enable NGA to do two things: acquire commercial GEOINT object detections and leverage industry analytics and automation in areas of national security interest, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n Whitworth did not reveal how much the contracts would be worth, saying, \u201cI wish I could tell you the amount, but let\u2019s just say it\u2019s significant.\u201d<\/p>\n Whitworth\u2019s comments\u00a0follow years<\/a>\u00a0of DoD and intelligence community officials expressing interest in increasing adoption of commercial space technologies.<\/p>\n AI And Project Maven<\/strong><\/p>\n In November, Rachel Martin, director for Project Maven, the Pentagon\u2019s flagship effort to speed up the use of artificial intelligence across the military, said NGA was\u00a0\u201cin the process\u201d<\/a>\u00a0of releasing a\u00a0request for proposals (RFP) so industry could make their pitch to be a part of that program.<\/p>\n The RFP is expected to be released in the second quarter of fiscal 2024 for Maven, which was split between the NGA and the Pentagon\u2019s Chief Digital and AI Office last year. Martin, at the time, said the the agency was looking to experiment with generative AI and large language models in the future.<\/p>\n Today, Whitworth said NGA has \u201cembraced\u201d the opportunities AI can provide, saying it can help NGA sift through all the data the agency has. Speaking about Maven, he added that NGA taking operational control of the program\u2019s GEOINT AI services was \u201csomething we have to do because we\u2019re responsible for analyzing a staggering amount of data.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve worked hard with the combatant commands to integrate AI into their workflows, accelerating operations and decision speeds,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve also increased the fidelity of targets, improved geolocation accuracy and refined our test and evaluation process. Plus, we\u2019ve ensured Maven models can run on other machine learning platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n