"create three-dimensional, interactive maps of every spot on the planet"
"Woman to lead satellite intel agency" by Associated Press | August 10, 2010
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The United States, which has had three female secretaries of state, will now have a woman leading one of its 16 major intelligence agencies.
Letitia A. Long, 51, was praised by Defense Secretary Robert Gates as the right person for the job, as she took up her post as director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in a ceremony yesterday at the agency’s half-built, high-tech campus in Springfield, Va.
Long, in turn, saluted what the agency’s work force has already accomplished, from aiding troops on the battlefield to helping draw together data from across the national security spectrum....
She spoke before several hundred VIPs from the intelligence and special-ops community on the roof of a parking garage next to her future offices. The complex is rising from a vast construction site at Fort Belvoir. The NGA’s staff is slated to relocate there by fall 2011.
Oh, you have money to pay for a new building for the fascistas, America?
In her 32-year career, Long has held a series of senior management positions: deputy director of Naval Intelligence, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and, most recently, second in command at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The NGA synthesizes satellite imagery, using everything from the number of electric lines a city has to the density of the soil, to create three-dimensional, interactive maps of every spot on the planet.--more--"
