Raytheon and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Improve Flow of Commercial Imagery to Analysts and WarfightersReference: Raytheon
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Raytheon Company and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) marked the transition of an improved capability that will rapidly ingest and disseminate imagery from U.S. commercial satellite companies to warfighters and intelligence analysts worldwide.
The effort was related to the agency's NextView program, in which NGA receives imagery from U.S. commercial satellite companies. With the new dissemination capability, NGA systems can now ingest and disseminate greater amounts of commercial satellite imagery daily, providing it to users more quickly.
NGA has also tasked Raytheon to provide the next generation of services to disseminate data from multiple sources to its users. The new Geospatial Intelligence Data Transformation Services, an effort under a current Raytheon program, permits NGA to ingest and disseminate data from numerous data providers with varying formats and sensor platforms. Integrating these data sources into the National System for Geospatial Intelligence will provide warfighters and the intelligence community with a broad set of new and improved geospatial intelligence products to meet mission needs.
