VISI N

COMMERCIAL GEOINT: DELIVERED AT THE SPEED OF DECISION MAKING 

 BUILT INTO OUR BUSINESS

PURP SE

This strategy will enable the NSG to better understand the world by leveraging commercial GEOINT capabilities. We will embrace new suppliers 

and services by working with our intelligence community, combatant commands, military services, and federal civil partners to employ the best 

mix of sources to satisfy mission needs.

G ALS

Expand data and service access through partnerships to feed analysis and production

Fortify GEOINT Assurance through diversity of commercial suppliers

Drive analytic and production capability by integrating commercial GEOINT, automation, and artificial intelligence

STRATEGY

As an evolving strategy, we build upon progress to date and focus on the future by updating our implementation imperatives and activities.

IMPLEMENTATION IMPERATIVES:

Learn + Understand the commercial GEOINT industry and status of capabilities through collaborative networks

Explore + Evaluate commercial GEOINT analytics, algorithms, services, products, imagery, and data

Influence + Invest across the industry to promote diversity and resilience in supplier base and capabilities *

Accelerate + Acquire mission relevant commercial GEOINT capabilities that are sufficiently mature

Adapt + Integrate commercially enabled operations to keep pace with mission requirements

COMMERCIAL GEOINT

STRATEGY

Executive Summary

* New implementation imperative
SUMMARY

This Commercial GEOINT Strategy provides a roadmap for the community to ride the wave of commercial GEOINT, delivering a range of 

commercial products and services to improve decision making. Mission informs and prioritizes everything we do.

We will establish transparency with customers and industry through communication, collaboration, and feedback to 

unify our effort

We will use informed investments and incentives with industry, our workforce, and the community to 

promote diversity, innovate, and remain relevant as the operating environment transforms

We will secure strategic competitive advantage from commercial GEOINT by working with trusted partners to 

outpace our adversaries

THE PATH

Together, the implementation imperatives offer a path forward as NGA continues to transform. Activities create connections across the imperatives.

Leverage partnerships

Engage innovators

Create automated

reports

Foster multinational 

partnerships

Enable data access

Activate experimental 

analysis units

Verify fit for use

Coordinate structured 

assessments

Establish bold

challenges

Employ platforms to

earn points

Apply points to

nominate offerings

Reward with

incentives

Diversify investments

Streamline policy

and regulations

Elevate achievable

Leverage automation

Prepare workforce

with training

Contract simply with 

broad user licenses

Embrace e-marketplaces 

with diverse contracts

Enable DevOps

environment

Protect systems with 

accreditation

Expose offerings through 

analytic workflows

Adapt processes and 

architecture

ROADMAP

The implementation imperatives in this strategy consist of five distinct and 

interweaving lanes of a roadmap. All lanes continuously move forward. 

CAPABILITIES

OPERATIONS

SUPPORT

ENTERPRISE

COMMERCIAL GEOINT STRATEGY

ROADMAP

KEEP PACE

SCOUT INNOVATION

ASSESS OFFERINGS

PROMOTE DIVERSITY

REMAIN RELEVANT

Leverage partnerships

Engage innovators

Enable data access

Activate experimental

analysis units

Coordinate structured

Verify t for use

assessments

Establish bold

challenges

Reward with

incentives

Elevate

achievable

Leverage

automation

Prepare

workforce

with training

Enable DevOps

environment

Protect systems 

with accreditation

Expose offerings through

analytic workows

Adapt processes 

and architecture

Diversify 

investments

Streamline policy

and regulations

Foster multinational 

partnerships

Create 

automated

reports

Embrace e-marketplaces

with diverse contracts

Contract simply with

broad user licenses

Employ platforms

to earn points

Apply points to

 nominate offerings

INFLUENCE +

INVEST

ACCELERATE +

ACQUIRE

ADAPT +

INTEGRATE

EXPLORE +

EVALUATE

LEARN +

UNDERSTAND

KEY

Existing Imperative

New Imperative

Existing Activity

New Activity

Implementation Imperatives

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