The UK must adopt a national structure for geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) similar to the current US approach, the director of cyber, intelligence and information integration (DCI3) at the Ministry of Defence has said.
Out-going director AVM John Rigby said there needed to be more governance in UK GEOINT, in a speech at the Defence Geospatial Intelligence conference in London on 20 January.
‘GEOINT is at the heart of everything we do,’ he said. ‘We have got to get our heads around how we mirror what happens in the [US] where they have a genuine national structure for GEOINT.’
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