NGA has outlined its strategic goals and objectives for 2013-2017, taking into account a changing global landscape, as well as the rising demand for GEOINT in an increasingly austere budget environment. This excerpt from the NGA website reflects the current challenges NGA, as well as the overall Intelligence Community, face as 2013 approaches:
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.
NGA's new strategy outlines two strategic goals:
- Provide online, on-demand access to GEOINT
- Broaden and deepen analytics expertise
And seven strategic objectives to improve upon by 2017:
- Content
- Open IT Environment
- Analytic Capabilities
- Customer Service
- Workforce
- Workplace
- Corporate and Functional Management
You can read NGA's overview of the strategy here. The entire NGA Strategy 2013-2017 is also available via an online PDF.
