The global security environment continues to evolve at an unprecedented rate. In the wake of the death of Usama bin Laden, the advent of the Arab Spring, and the "pivot" to focus on the Asia–Pacific region, we must prepare NGA for future national security challenges in an era of fiscal austerity. NGA and GEOINT are key enablers of our national security interests, actions, and decisions around the globe. The NGA Strategy aligns with the nation's strategic priorities, goals, and objectives as outlined in the National Intelligence Strategy, the Defense Intelligence Strategy, and the Secretary of Defense strategic guidance: Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense.
Our strategy takes into account NGA's need to be agile in supporting multiple mission areas, including support to military and intelligence operations, intelligence analysis, homeland defense, and humanitarian and disaster relief, and to retain its focus on DNI and USD(I) priorities, including counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cyber, anti-access/area denial, and global coverage. It is imperative that NGA contribute to the greatest extent possible in advancing the DNI's priority to integrate intelligence so that we, as a Community, ensure we produce the most accurate intelligence judgments that best serve the President, policymakers, and warfighters alike.
As we embrace today's global landscape, we face an austere fiscal environment that demands better governance and deliberate planning to maintain critical Community capabilities while preserving resources for future mission development. The IC as a whole must be more efficient. Together we must leverage our collective resources to meet mission demands. This will require NGA to make difficult choices about current and proposed GEOINT capabilities across the National System for Geospatial Intelligence. To stay on top of emerging issues, NGA will need to carefully balance investments, resources, risks, and priorities.
Emerging science and technology brings both challenges and opportunities. NGA's success will depend on how we embrace change, especially that which is enabled by advances in technology. As our adversaries adopt new denial and deception techniques, NGA must use innovative sources, tools, techniques, and processes to maintain our strategic advantage. NGA will be guided by our Vision, as expressed in our strategic goals and objectives, in taking GEOINT to the next level.
Strategic Goals:
- Provide online, on-demand access to our GEOINT knowledge.
- Broaden and deepen our analytic expertise to produce new value.
Strategic Objectives:
- Content: By 2017, NGA has empowered the GEOINT community through greatly improved access to varied content and applications, easy-to-use online services in all security domains, and the ability to contribute content to the global GEOINT knowledge base.
- Open IT Environment: By 2017, NGA has a stable, mission-driven and open IT environment that meets industry standards for service availability, service time to market, and overall costs as a percentage of operating cost. This enables a self-, assisted-, full-service delivery model that allows users to create and consume GEOINT content anytime on the device of their choice.
- Analytic Capabilities: By 2017, NGA is providing a range of new anticipatory analytic products and services that make a measurable difference in outcomes for customers.
- Customer Service: By 2017, NGA is providing robust online, on-demand GEOINT services that provide access to content, applications, expertise, and support through a unified Web presence and an enterprise application store on three security domains.
- Workforce: By 2017, NGA will attract, motivate, and retain a highly skilled, innovative, and adaptive workforce, and will reward those who take balanced risks in furtherance of NGA's mission.
- Workplace: By 2017, NGA will be a leader in the federal government by establishing secure, safe, sustainable, collaborative, and environmentally friendly sites that are in compliance with all federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and standards.
- Corporate and Functional Management: By 2017, NGA functions more efficiently through real-time transparent insight into expenditures and agility in managing its program, budget, and personnel. The GEOINT enterprise has broadly adapted functional management architecture, tradecraft, and standards that adhere to functional management program guidance, has established, metrics to assess implementation of the strategy and R&D/S&T investments show a return on investment.
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