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The system was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2020\/09\/25\/the-army-just-conducted-a-massive-test-of-its-battlefield-artificial-intelligence-in-the-desert\/\">one of several automatic or aided target recognition solutions<\/a> tested in the desert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NGA was a big part of Project Maven from the start, said Munsell, feeding data to companies to help them develop AI algorithms. Most of the lines of effort within Project Maven entail geospatial intelligence, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt made a lot of sense to take what they\u2019ve learned and take the infrastructure they\u2019ve built and the experience they\u2019ve learned from the companies and find a GEOINT home for it,\u201d said Munsell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will not be a pause in development when the agency takes over Project Maven, said Munsell, but it will bring in its own subject matters to assess the effort and better integrate it with the NGA\u2019s other AI and computer vision initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NGA has long worked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/intel-geoint\/2021\/10\/06\/national-geospatial-intelligence-agency-boss-reveals-data-strategy\/\">to harness AI for its own missions<\/a> in an attempt to manage the massive torrent of data flowing into the agency from government and commercial sources. 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