Putting this in context that does make sense. There is a huge gap between volumes of information and the ability to make sense of it. There is an increasingly broad range of geospatial applications. There is a lot of high level research in Universities. To ensure coordination with existing activities the government is already performing.
International cooperation is needed and international meetings are important.
There is a need to continue outreach and dialogue. Its important to identify the activities in private sector such as, Ideas, Cost sharing, and Concrete projects in order to get the private sector involved. It s important to help building bi-partisan support on the Hill. There is an inability to process data. Chris Nicholas, GlobeXplorer.