MISSION

We provide GEOINT for our nation’s security

VISION
NGA will propel the continued dominance of GEOINT
to protect American interests

COMMITMENT
MISSION HUMAN DATA ENTERPRISE RELENTLESSLY
DRIVEN CENTERED ENABLED STRONG INNOVATIVE

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INTRODUCTION
This is a critically important time in our nation’s history and our agency’s development.

As highlighted in the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS), we’re emerging from a period of strategic atrophy, aware
that our competitive military advantage has been eroding. We’re facing increased global disorder, characterized by
decline in the long-standing rules-based international order — creating a security environment more complex and volatile
than we have experienced in recent memory.

Similarly, the 2019 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) highlights that we’re facing significant changes in the
domestic and global environment and stresses the need to be ready to meet 21st-century challenges and recognize
emerging threats and opportunities. It further emphasizes that in order to navigate today’s turbulent and complex
strategic environment, we must do things differently.

The imperative and urgency is clear. Given the challenges and opportunities in the security environment, NGA’s
capabilities and contributions are vital.

We provide GEOINT to secure our nation.

We exist to show the way … and do so uniquely by knowing the Earth and understanding the world.

We maintain detailed, foundational physical characterizations of the Earth from seabed to space and provide products our
forces require to navigate and operate safely every day, everywhere around the globe. We build a wide array of GEOINT
products providing unique context and insights to answer questions from a broad range of customers — from White
House policymakers, to Pentagon decision-makers, to deployed warfighters, to first responders, to non-government
organizations. Our customers rely on us to “show the way”… to literally get them from point A to point B, help illuminate
options and inform decisions, and carry out actions with precision. We must, and will, meet our nation’s needs.

NGA’s 2025 Strategic Goals are aligned to the NDS and the NIS. Our number one goal starts with investing in our
people – that’s the basis of our strength. We will emphasize “people first … mission always” in everything we do. Our
second goal emphasizes strengthening and expanding our partnerships — critical partnerships loosely defined and
only limited by our imaginations and willingness to create meaningful connections. Our comparative advantage as an
agency and a nation is founded in our people … and our partnerships. Goals three and four focus on delivering trusted
GEOINT where and when needed to meet mission needs today, while simultaneously looking to the future to ensure we
maintain comparative advantage over competitors and adversaries. We will continue to provide world-class analytical
products to meet our broad customer base requirements, while adapting to the realities presented by a changing
security and technological environment — modernizing and transforming our IT infrastructure, collection services,
networks, training and business practices to be able to handle an increase in GEOINT sources with a deluge of data
that is on the horizon; or in some cases, already here.

This strategy sets the direction and charts the course to move us into the next decade. As with any journey,
there will be unforeseen hazards, challenges and opportunities along the way. We will be a learning organization,
continually adapting and adjusting wherever and whenever needed. The journey won’t be easy, but I’m confident
we’re up to the task.

Team NGA … We Show the Way!

Robert D. Sharp
VADM USN
Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

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 GOAL 1: People GOAL 2: Partnerships
Inspire and Grow Our Fuel and Drive the Entire Global
World-Class Workforce GEOINT Community
NGA will invest in our ability to recruit, engage, NGA will collaborate and expand alliances with
develop, train and retain a workforce that advances domestic and international partners to fulfill
our tradecraft and innovates solutions to meet our common vision for a mission-integrated,
emerging mission needs. Our world-class workforce professional and resilient GEOINT community.
must master technology to combine the science We will implement governance, standards and
of intelligence with relentless curiosity; leverage enterprise services with our partners that enable
diversity to continuously raise our GEOINT interoperability and build resilience and operational
expertise; and learn to use machines as digital strength in the GEOINT community. NGA will
assistants to provoke expert analysis. NGA transform its acquisition tradecraft and contracting
will evolve its workforce culture to emphasize services to enable efficient and mutually beneficial
transparency, respect, excellence and teamwork — partner and supplier engagement. NGA will
creating a workplace built by our people which is share capability and resource planning, training,
inherently inclusive and attractive to our aspiring education and certification with our partners for
teammates. NGA will insert accountability into unified GEOINT mission execution and transparent
performance metrics for the agency and individuals. resource decisions.
We will accept and expeditiously act upon feedback
from our workforce, customers and overseers. We
will adapt and grow to exceed the expectations of
our customers.

“A modern, agile, information-advantaged “Mutually beneficial alliances and

Department requires a motivated, diverse, partnerships are crucial to our strategy,
and highly skilled civilian workforce … to use providing a durable, asymmetric advantage
information, not simply manage it.” that no competitor or rival can match … ”
2018 National Defense Strategy 2018 National Defense Strategy

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 GOAL 3: Mission Today GOAL 4: Mission Tomorrow
Secure and Deliver the Nation’s Anticipate Opportunity
Most Trusted GEOINT and Foresee Threats
NGA will support U.S. national security by NGA will translate actionable intelligence into
delivering persistent, accurate, secure and opportunities to ensure our national security. We
timely GEOINT data, products and services our will reduce strategic surprise by elevating our
customers rely upon to perform critical missions. understanding of the world and anticipating future
Our objective remains the same — deliver trusted events. We will increase decision advantage with
GEOINT for decision advantage to those we agile operations that adapt faster and integrate
serve — and we must stay ahead of the rapidly opportunities for innovation before our adversaries.
improving decision cycles of our adversaries. As NGA will transform GEOINT by investing in
we accelerate timelines and expand our enterprise, breakthrough capabilities that strengthen strategic
we must not inadvertently dilute the power of the warning, mission forecasting and foundational
GEOINT we provide. We will decrease decision military intelligence for our customers. NGA will
timelines by expediting reporting to enable timely automate routine GEOINT tasks and corporate
military, political and humanitarian action; broker business processes and take advantage of
geospatial solutions that leverage global suppliers technology from academic, corporate and
to deliver the best possible GEOINT to any government-military partners to create strategic
mission at any time for any location; and maintain capabilities with mission advantage. We will evolve
the confidence and trust of our customers by strategic research and development to harness
consistently ensuring the availability, security and new phenomenologies, data-centric technologies,
quality of all GEOINT. advanced analytics, deep learning, computer
vision, high-performance computing, automation
and artificial intelligence.

“The IC is a 24/7/365 organization, scanning “We face significant changes in the

the globe and delivering the most distinctive, domestic and global environment: we
timely insights with clarity, objectivity, must be ready to meet the 21st century
and independence to advance our challenges and to recognize emerging
national security, economic strength, and threats and opportunities.”
technological superiority.”
Daniel R. Coats, Director of National Intelligence,
Daniel R. Coats, Director of National Intelligence, National Intelligence Strategy of the
National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America 2019
United States of America 2019

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MOVING FORWARD …
To sustain our advantage, GEOINT must support autonomous military operations, human–machine teaming,
humanitarian crises, complex sense-making and strategic policy actions. We must embrace anticipatory
intelligence as an operational and business paradigm. In a world of competition with our peer adversaries,
we will not have the luxury of time to observe and orient manually — we will need to deliver GEOINT for
immediate insight, understanding, decision and action. We can provide this level of service only if we have
prepared our data to drive decisions and our visualization to illuminate the option space. Anticipatory
intelligence drives our planning and contingency options based on adversary behavior — and best positions
us to improve national security.

As noted in the director’s introduction, achieving the goals and outcomes provided in this strategy will not be
easy — and we need wide diversity of opinions and perspectives to begin to understand the opportunities and
risks. Our national security and prosperity demand that geospatial capabilities, advanced technology, expert
tradecraft, innovative partnerships and a dynamic workforce all work in unison to deliver decisive advantage.

This strategy drives NGA’s planning, programming and implementation efforts. The NGA Strategic
Implementation Plan will provide supporting objectives to ensure our activities and programs can be
aligned, measured and assessed in pursuit of our strategic goals and outcomes.

MISSION
We provide GEOINT for our nation’s security

VISION
NGA will propel the continued dominance of GEOINT to protect American interests

GOALS
Inspire and Grow Our World-Class Workforce
Fuel and Drive the Entire Global GEOINT Community
Secure and Deliver the Nation’s Most Trusted GEOINT
Anticipate Opportunity and Foresee Threats

COMMITMENT
Mission Driven = Human Centered = Data Enabled = Enterprise Strong = Relentlessly Innovative

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TEAM NGA
We enable and embody the following core values in
the way we speak and act each and every day.

TEAM NGA ... WE SHOW THE WAY!

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KNOW THE EARTH ... SHOW THE WAY ... UNDERSTAND THE WORLD

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