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>commercial imagery is still a tiny, insignificant part of the national geointelligence enterprise This is a false statement. Without getting into things that
by aerostable_slug 6y ago
>commercial imagery is still a tiny, insignificant part of the national geointelligence enterprise
This is a false statement.
Without getting into things that aren't talked about online, I assure you that commercial imagery is regularly used in .gov/.mil settings for a variety of purposes. This includes gap-filling (both geographically and historically), the ability to disseminate product widely without sanitization, etc. There's nothing insignificant about its use.
- nonameiguess 6y agoWe may just disagree on what counts as significant for whatever reason, but I have had direct access to the resource management and capacity planning database of ADF-E and ADF-SW showing exactly how many of each geointelligence product was created and disseminated and for the RROC this included products being created from commercial sources. To me, they were not significant, but I understand this is not necessarily the case at a tactical level, for many of the reasons you're giving here like impracticality of downgrade to a classification level that actually allows you to disseminate to a forward-deployed commander only cleared for Secret. For MDA specifically, though, we cracked that nut and can downgrade to the point we're just giving out pngs with no evidence of where they came from.