Leveraging AI in ‘No-Fail Mission’ for U.S. Intelligence

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – It’s hard to overstate the complexity and importance of the work of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), which — by its own definition — involves delivering “world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, military service members, intelligence professionals and first responders.”

As a practical matter, that amounts to intelligence collection on an enormous scale, often involving needle-in-haystack searches for hugely critical missions, and with no margin for error. Or, as its Director Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth puts it, it’s a “no-fail mission.”