Intelligence/
NGA
Robert Cardillo took over as director of
the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
on October 3, 2014. NGA collects, processes, and dispenses satellite imagery
for national security purposes.and analyzes intelligence information through
the lens of geography and maps.
It didn’t take long in office for
Cardillo to be forced to deal with an embarrassing incident when, on January
26, 2015, an NGA employee mistakenly flew a drone onto the White House grounds.
On the other hand, shortly after Cardillo took over, the NGA created a website to share images to help track the
spread of Ebola in West Africa.
Cardillo is an Army brat; his father Richard is a West
Point graduate and rose to the rank of brigadier general. Cardillo went to
Cornell, graduating in 1983 with a B.A. in government.
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