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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Open Projects (Updated 2/5/2010)

Full-time one-year appointments are renewable up to three years; postdoc appointments are renewable up to four years. Students can participate fulltime or parttime as long as they meet eligibility requirements. Appointments for students are during the summer breaks, Application deadlines for students are 12/31 for the upcoming summer appointments.

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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provides timely, relevant, and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives.  Geospatial intelligence is the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth.  Information collected and processed by NGA is tailored for customer-specific solutions.  By giving customers ready access to geospatial intelligence, NGA provides support to civilian and military leaders and contributes to the state of readiness of U.S. military forces.  NGA also contributes to humanitarian efforts such as tracking floods and fires, and in peacekeeping.
NGA is a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency.  Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., NGA operates major facilities in the St. Louis, Mo. and Washington, D.C. areas.  The Agency also fields support teams worldwide. Degree disciplines sought include: Math, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Geospatial Information Science, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Remote Sensing, etc. Applications are accepted on a continuous basis.

Project Title Location Educational Requirements Project Number # of Openings
Post-doctoral opportunity for researchers in vision and/or attention Washington, DC Doctoral Degree NGA-LC-2010-116
Multiple
Signal Extraction and Exploitation from Overhead Imagery Project Washington, DC Doctoral Degree NGA-LC-2010-062
Multiple
Visual Science and Visual Cognition in Imagery Analysis Project Reston, VA Doctoral Degree NGA-LC-2009-16
Multiple
Academic Interns and Fellows Project Reston, VA Bachelor's, Master's Doctoral Students and Postgraduates; Faculty NGA-LC-2009-15
Multiple