[Board] NGA Open Source Initiative

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Mark-

 

Two thumbs up from over on this coast.  I've been working with DARPA (and
the intel community) for the past several months now, and topics touching on
open source come up a lot.  I look forward to talking more about this next
week in Denver --

 

-mpg

 

 

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Subject: [Board] NGA Open Source Initiative

 

I've been working with Tyler and Peter on this over the last couple of
months, but would like to expand the discussion to the rest of the board.

 

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), is a member of the US
Intelligence community.  This agency previously evolved from the Defense
Mapping Agency, the National Photographic Intelligence Center (NPIC) merged
into the National Intelligence and Mapping Agency.  Gen Clapper was the
Director of NIMA when it became the NGA - he is now the Director of National
Intelligence (DNI).

 

The intelligence budgets are classified.  It is my opinion that the NGA
spends more on geospatial technologies than any other agency in the world.
It is also no secret that the US federal budgets are lined up take
significant cuts.  There is a realization that current acquisition programs
to not provide the technical agility required to meet modern day threats.

 

I'm involved in a program to rapidly introduce open source software into
NGA.  The attached document was approved for public release.

 

I'm attempting to link this effort with the OSGeo foundation.  We'll have a
brief session at the foss4g conference to talk about it.

 

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