The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency makes a concerted effort to accelerate its artificial intelligence efforts over the next year, creating new AI leadership roles and pushing more resources to its IT infrastructure.
NGA’s mission is to shoot Satellite dataRadars and other sources in information usable for military decision -makers and operators. Given this mission and its main role in the Defense department High -level Maven data and image processing systemAI has long been part of the NGA objective.
But the director of the NGA, the vice-admiral, Frank Whitworth, said this week that he wanted NGA more AI efforts and establishes new standards and leadership roles that allow him to better take advantage of technology.
One of NGA’s largest needs in this area, Whitworth said on Monday at the satellite conference in Washington, is the financing of the calculation power necessary to execute large -scale AI models.
“We must make sure that, as we obtain additional models and that we are inserting the inference on the models we have the necessary calculation to do so,” he said, noting without this support infrastructure, NGA data processing rates could start dragging.
The agency must also invest more in data labeling, which is the process of describing or cataloging raw data to teach and improve the performance of AI models.
Whitworth said he had good discussions with the Ministry of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence on Funding and that it is “confident” that NGA will obtain the resources it needs.
At the top of the WHITWORTH objectives list for this year, establishes more solid AI leadership within NGA. In this sense, the agency has created two new director positions to supervise the standards and programs of the AI and an executive director who will direct the operations of the AI.
Whitworth also wants NGA to progress in establishing a standardized government framework to assess risks in AI models, establishing confidence between analysts and AI systems in which they work and improve its ability to monitor opponent.
Courtney Albon is the journalist for C4ISRNET space and emerging technology. She has covered the American army since 2012, emphasizing Air Force and Spatial Force. It reported on some of the most important challenges of acquisition, budget and policy of the Ministry of Defense.
