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Still, it maintains 170 million historical images dating back to 1935, including imagery produced by the KH-7, KH-8 and KH-9 spy satellites from 1963 to 1986. If an analyst needs that imagery, NGA staff can scan and digitize small batches for in-house use. While imperfect, that process does allow analysts access to the historical film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That system could have worked in perpetuity, except for one detail: the NGA expects all of that film to disintegrate by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To ensure that data be preserved for future analysts, the agency needed a solution for scanning the film at scale. So NGA officials decided to seek answers through an other transaction authority, an acquisition method frequently used to find solutions from nontraditional vendors. The request was released through a consortium, meaning any members could reply and offer ideas, even if they had never considered working with the NGA before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s sort of the beauty of a consortium-based approach to OTAs. That is, we award our OTAs through a consortium, that consortium has customers from around the federal government, and anybody who joins the consortium is able to bid on any of the OTAs that any of the agencies [post],\u201d said Christy Monaco, chief ventures officer of the NGA\u2019s Office of Ventures and Innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ultimately, a company with expertise in check scanning submitted a proposal, and the NGA asked for a prototype. For now, the company is proving its concept by scanning the imagery in six inch segments before stitching it together digitally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe company awarded the OTA was a small company that would not have otherwise been on our radar. They have produced scanning technology for commercial entities, but had never done so for a public sector client,\u201d added Monaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NGA did not disclose the name of the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assuming the solution works, NGA could use the digitized datasets to assist in predictive analysis and automated target detection. The historical imagery provides a unique perspective on how the earth has changed over the last century, the agency claims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the challenge posed by decaying film is part of a common problem for NGA in the 21st century: The methods used to process information in the past aren\u2019t scalable to the torrent of data the agency is tasked with ingesting today. And that flood of information is only growing as the intelligence community continues to add new sensors and incorporate open source intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWithin NGA, the increase in the number and volume of GEOINT sensors [for example, commercial small satellites] has led to a situation where we have an abundance of data but also attendant challenges to process and exploit all that information,\u201d Monaco said. \u201cWe therefore must foster a culture of innovation so that our workforce has the skills and the means to address both of these challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enter NGA\u2019s Office of Ventures and Innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Building a culture of innovation<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former NGA Director Robert Cardillo maintains that under his watch, from 2014 to early 2019, the agency launched pathfinder programs and small-scale efforts to bring in new technologies. The challenge, however, was taking those efforts and scaling them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t think the challenge or the problem was we weren\u2019t willing to try a new vehicle to either get talent or technology in the door, my challenge, which I now suspect is [NGA Director Adm. Robert Sharp\u2019s], is scale,\u201d Cardillo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a common issue throughout the military and intelligence community, but Cardillo\u2019s impressed with some of the efforts being made. He specifically singled out the work being done by Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Will Roper. Over the last year, the service has encouraged a rapid prototyping model fueled by new contracting vehicles that is intended to speed up the acquisition cycle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s trying to smash down the old barriers for Air Force acquisitions, and so\u2019s [Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics] Ellen Lord, and I\u2019m rooting them on. The problem is the government is just so big. It takes people like Will \u2014 who\u2019s got real authority, real money, real contracting \u2014 to take what you might call a crazy idea a year or two ago and test it, monitor it, do due diligence &#8230; but begin to change those cycle times,\u201d said Cardillo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For its part, the NGA stood up the Office of Ventures and Innovation two years ago to help foster internal innovation and bring more innovative nontraditional vendors into the fold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we are not is like a Skunk Works, like the place in NGA where innovation happens,\u201d said Monaco. \u201cWe, of course, try to innovate on our own missions and we do have some what I consider out investment funds where we can go out and invest in new technologies that we would bring in to solve mission needs. But for the most part, what we are really about is things like culture change and trying to build the information environment necessary for us to make smarter decisions about innovation and the investments we\u2019re making.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NGA pulled staffers together from throughout the agency in order to build the new office. In addition to incorporating staff from the research directorate, the new office absorbed the team that made up the Enterprise Innovation Office. The office also pulled in the Governance Acquisition Operations staff as well as the Small Business Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview, Monaco explained how there are three aspects to her office\u2019s efforts: retraining how the NGA staff think about problems and solutions; using more agile methods to acquire solutions; and providing seed funding for innovative ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Defense\u2019s standard acquisitions approach can be lengthy and not exactly friendly to innovative, start-up like companies. Part of what Monaco\u2019s office does to harness those solutions is explore non-traditional acquisition methods, ranging from GSA schedules to other transaction authorities or even cooperative research and development agreements and prize challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve exposed some folks to training that is specifically focused on what I call acquisition agility \u2014 being able to apply the right acquisition means to your problem,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the NGA\u2019s work on acquisitions serves as a blueprint for other intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the things that the [intelligence community] has decided to pursue is what they\u2019re calling an acquisition agility playbook. Well, we happen to have one that we developed years ago, and we just maintain it. As we learn of new means or new means are awarded to us, we just keep it updated. And, so, the community turned to us and said, \u2018Hey, we know you have this acquisition and agility playbook. Can you help develop that for the community?\u2019\u201d said Monaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like other military and intelligence organizations, the NGA has increased its use of OTAs to harness commercial innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first year the intelligence agency issued one OTA through the consortium. In the second year they awarded four, and in the third year 11. The agency declined to release a list of similar contracts they have awarded to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt hasn\u2019t just been the increase in the number of OTAs that we have awarded; it has also been the amount of funds that we\u2019ve awarded. We\u2019re at something like a 1,100 percent increase from fiscal \u201918 to fiscal \u201919 over the amount of dollars we\u2019ve awarded this way,\u201d said Monaco. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The office is also working to foster innovation with its seed money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Monaco, her group can distribute seed funding for promising technologies through In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit that works with government agencies to find start-up solutions in the commercial sector. Additionally, the office has a venture board that takes the same approach but acts internally. So if an NGA employee comes up with an interesting innovation, the venture board can provide seed funding for that effort. The venture board hosts an annual contest to give employees the opportunity to pitch their ideas, said Monaco, and potentially come away with funding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency declined to share examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pg_32_Monaco_Christy.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pg_32_Monaco_Christy.jpg.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pg_32_Monaco_Christy.jpg.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pg_32_Monaco_Christy.jpg.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pg_32_Monaco_Christy.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monaco\u2019s office also leads trainings with NGA staff to teach them how to think about problem solving differently \u2014 helping people understand that they don\u2019t need to just focus on finding a solution, they need to think more abstractly about their problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Fast Forward program is the training and the culture piece and retraining, not just the workforce, but retraining the executives, as well,\u201d said Monaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, in October, the agency held an \u201cidea-thon,\u201d where five student groups from universities got together to solve a GEOINT challenge and received some of that same innovation training that NGA employees receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe brought to them an unclassified intelligence problem, around wildlife trafficking,\u201d explained Monaco. \u201cWe sort of decomposed elements of that problem into more digestible elements and said, \u2018Here are four or five different aspects of counter wildlife trafficking that could use some innovative thinking.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using the start-up methodology and problem curation taught by Monaco\u2019s office, the students developed concepts that they then pitched to her team. When they return to NGA in March to present their prototypes, the teams will have the opportunity to win prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And their work could even lead to usable solutions for the NGA. Wildlife tracking is a useful, unclassified stand-in for the classified work the NGA actually does, meaning NGA staff can apply the student\u2019s unorthodox methods to real-life intelligence missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not just about we have a capability that needs to be filled, but it\u2019s also about helping our workforce better find new ways to think about the intelligence problems that they are working on in an unclassified way, finding an analog and working with folks outside the agency to bring capabilities in which allows us to say, \u2018Hey, you know, what we can differentiate our effort on the things that really only we can do if we can find people outside the agency who are able to do that for us,\u2019\u201d explained Monaco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To ensure that data be preserved for future analysts, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is exploring solutions for scanning deteriorating 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