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by its own definition — involves delivering “world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, military service members, intelligence professionals and first responders.”
As a practical matter, that amounts to intelligence collection on an enormous scale, often involving needle-in-haystack searches for hugely critical missions, and with no margin for error. Or, as its Director Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth puts it, it’s a “no-fail mission.”
