{"id":31302,"date":"2018-04-24T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/04\/24\/nga-director-facts-arent-what-they-used-to-be\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:31:55","slug":"nga-director-facts-arent-what-they-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/04\/24\/nga-director-facts-arent-what-they-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"NGA director: \u2018Facts aren\u2019t what they used to be\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Top national security leaders have been warning that the world is becoming an increasingly dynamic place in which everyone from friendly forces to adversarial nation states, terrorist groups and criminal organizations have unprecedented access to the same commercial technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new dynamic world \u2014 one in which the truth can be much more easily fabricated \u2014 is posing problems for intelligence agencies that seek to provide policy makers with answers to questions and context surrounding world events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFacts are not what they used to be,\u201d National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo said during a keynote speech April 23 at the annual GEOINT symposium in Tampa, Florida. \u201cWhat\u2019s real, what\u2019s artificial, what\u2019s fabricated and how do we know. In such a world, that\u2019s less tethered to ground truth, one grasps for context and coherence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NGA will be releasing a new updated strategy soon, and while Cardillo told reporters at the symposium that the strategy will be mostly fine-tuning, one area of elevation from when the current strategy, now three years old, will be greater focus on adversaries\u2019 capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\t