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Washington #Nats and #STLCards who? Team NGA is the team to beat this baseball season! 🌎 💪 ⚾️ Here, every day is National Intelligence Professionals Day. Follow along in July as we showcase the unique tradecraft of our #intelligence professionals! ➡️

NATO 🤝 NGA in 🌌 Yesterday at the #NATOSUMMIT in DC, VADM Whitworth joined 16 NATO Ministers of Defense to sign the NATO Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space Memorandum of Understanding which will enhance NATO's #GEOINT and #IMINT capabilities from space. NGA is proud to support the NATO Alliance from seabed to space.

🚨🚨 CALLING ALL COLLEGE STUDENTS 🚨🚨 Are you looking for a 2025 summer internship that ✅ Pays ✅ Prepares you for employment ✅ Supports our nation’s security Then NGA is the place for you! The deadline for NGA’s 2025 summer internship program has been extended. Application closes THIS SATURDAY July 13. Apply now ➡️ https://bit.ly/3xZKiPk

Next in NGA’s intelligence professionals lineup is Jennifer, a human geographer ⚾️ With a BA and MA from Missouri State University and 15 years of analysis experience at NGA, she’s sure to hit it out of the park.🏅

#ICYMI NGA continues to provide #GEOINT and satellite imagery that documents North Korea’s ongoing human rights violations. Two partners who use this #intelligence spoke recently at NGA Washington: 🌐 U.S. Department of State Ambassador Julie Turner thanked NGA and the #IC for providing her with the tools needed to keep calling out the North Korean regime. ⚖️ The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea Director Greg Scarlatoiu highlighted that NGA products have been used in 24 of their reports documenting North Korea’s policy of human rights denial. Learn more about NGA’s important work in this space by reading our latest #NGATearline report 📰➡️ https://bit.ly/3W4nx59

#DYK: In 2023, NGA provided imagery and #GEOINT for 11 tornadoes, 13 floods, 63 wildfires, and 10 tropical storms at the request of FEMA and U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Already in April and May of 2024, NGA has provided 256 images over 20 locations in seven states hit by severe thunder storms. With NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration predicting more tornados this season than in the past 70 years, NGA is ready to support natural disaster survivors and our partner agencies. Learn more about how NGA supported FEMA during a recent tornado outbreak in Nebraska ➡️ https://bit.ly/3XIkOjZ

First up to bat is Katy, a cartographer here at NGA. ⚾️ 🗺️ Katy previously worked at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), where she mapped habitat restoration for endangered species, and spent 7 years in Italy working for the US Navy. She now receives extra money each paycheck for her Italian language skills

Happy #July4th from NGA! 🎆 🎆 #DYK In July 1777, General George Washington created the Defense Mapping Agency, which produced over 200 detailed maps. These maps gave Washington superior terrain knowledge, enabling him to outmaneuver the British. One of their maps is this Hudson Highlands map from July 1779. Generals Washington and Wayne used this map to plan the successful surprise attack on Stony Point where an American militia empowered by #cartography emerged victorious. Today, we celebrate America’s independence and the role maps played in achieving our hard earned and long beloved freedom. 🗺️

At NGA St. Louis, 10 students from Saint Louis University, Harris-Stowe State University, and University of Missouri-Saint Louis are working in #geomatics at our Geosciences and Artificial Intelligence Application Lab. These students are working on #AI Gravity, AI Crustal Magnetism, Gravity Modeling Enhancement, and AI Cloud Detection projects and partnering with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, and U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Read more on how NGA is paving the way for the future of geomatics, #NGAinSTL ➡️ https://bit.ly/4coKhnh

NGA may soon be able to predict the future. 🔮 🔮 How? Satellite imagery with #AI can enable NGA to better anticipate events of geopolitical significance and impending crises: You're going to see a drought here and that may lead to civil unrest. Traditionally, analysis is retroactive, but with AI, satellite imagery can be used to forecast what is likely to happen in the future. Learn more about how AI will continue to revolutionize #GEOINT from NGA’s Data and Digital Innovation Director Mark Munsell 📰➡️ https://bit.ly/3L0V9eS