The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is preparing to roll out generative artificial intelligence to support its national security mission. 

By making GenAI accessible to trained users, NGA empowers analysts to optimize workflows, support staff to ease administrative load, managers to enhance decision-making and technical teams to speed up development. 

According to the agency, this organization-wide approach ensures Gen AI’s benefits are realized across missions while maintaining essential security and quality standards — maximizing impact and driving greater operational success.

“As our adversaries advance their own AI capabilities, implementing this technology isn’t just an option — it’s imperative,” said an NGA Senior data officer.

The agency further states that the intelligence landscape has fundamentally shifted. Each day, the agency receives data from numerous collection platforms — far more than human analysts can feasibly process. This presents not just a challenge, but an unsolvable equation if relying solely on human analysis.

“Consider the reality, the volume of geospatial data is growing exponentially, and adversaries are rapidly advancing their AI capabilities. Traditional analysis methods cannot keep pace with the speed of modern operations. This means critical intelligence could be missed simply due to human processing limitations,” it said in a blog post.