The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is establishing a Joint Mission Management Center in Orlando to improve collaboration among government agencies. NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth stated that the center will integrate data from the Defense Department, various intelligence agencies, and international partners to deliver decision advantage at speed and scale during competition, crisis, and combat. The need for a collaborative center is driven by an increasingly dynamic threat environment that requires better data from multiple intelligence sources.
Whitworth emphasized that the space domain should not operate in stovepipes but rather in a joint or integrated approach. The JMMC aims to provide a venue for collaboration and leverage advanced intelligence collection capabilities to enhance decision-making. By stitching together a more complete picture from gathered intelligence, the center will rely less on assumptions and more on trusted information.
NGA wants JMMC to facilitate collaboration among distinct space organizations and improve monitoring of illegal activities in domains like the Indo-Pacific. Whitworth highlighted that the future of space intelligence collection and decision-making will depend on better speed based on improved code. The center is still in the concept phase, but efforts are underway to quickly operationalize it for unified DOD, IC, and allied GEOINT collection operations.
