In this session, we feature the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a key stakeholder and sponsor for the new AWS Secret Region, which supports workloads up to the Secret U.S. security classification level and is readily available to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). NGA uses AWS Snowball Edge to support War Fighter, utilizing imagery from NGA’s Open Data Store and implementing geospatial applications on the edge. AWS Snowball Edge allows NGA to directly support its mission, providing products and services to decision makers, warfighters, and first responders when they need it most. Enabling the edge changes NGA’s ability to share critical resources, data to facilitate user access meets NGA’s mission needs, and support the IC and Department of Defense as a whole.

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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency:
Changing the Way the Intelligence
Community Moves Data
Timmy Richardson
Cloud Innovation Architect for
Exploitation Services
NGA
W P S 3 1 5
Jerry Curl
WWPS Senior Business Manager, US
National Security
AWS

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Timmy Richardson
November 26, 2018
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Changing the Way the
Intelligence Community Moves Data – WPS315
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12 Million images ingested
50 Million indexed observations
The “eyes” don’t have it
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Reduced Timelines
Automated Extractions
Automate our imagery
observations
Automate text reports related
to those observations

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Data Condition Data Security &
Data Access
Data Ingest Data Discovery Exploitation
Other Services
Data Dissemination

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Odyssey – Ingest and Dissemination
• Solution to a Need
• Method to deliver cloud architecture
at the edge
• Currently leverages AWS Snowball
Edge building blocks (storage,
compute and hosts virtual
machines).
• Constant tech refresh
• Leverages existing enterprise
licenses
Snowball Edge Node
100 TB Storage each
Clusters up to 1.4 PB
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Odyssey – Ingest and Dissemination
• Solution to a Need
• Method to deliver cloud architecture
at the edge
• Currently leverages AWS Snowball
Edge building blocks (storage,
compute and hosts virtual
machines).
• Constant tech refresh
• Leverages existing enterprise
licenses
Snowball Edge Node
100 TB Storage each
Clusters up to 1.4 PB
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED

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Odyssey – Ingest and Dissemination
• Solution to a Need
• Method to deliver cloud architecture
at the edge
• Currently leverages AWS Snowball
Edge building blocks (storage,
compute and hosts virtual
machines).
• Constant tech refresh
• Leverages existing enterprise
licenses
Snowball Edge Node
100 TB Storage each
Clusters up to 1.4 PB
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED

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Odyssey Engineering Team
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iSpy – Discovery & Exploitation
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iSpy – Discovery & Exploitation
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ESRI ArcGIS Portal - Exploitation
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GXP Explorer- Discovery
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Google Earth Enterprise Platform (GEEP)
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Google Earth Enterprise Platform (GEEP)
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Pixia HiPER LOOK
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Pixia HiPER LOOK
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Where do you need the cloud?

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Where do you need the cloud?

27. Thank you!
© 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Timmy Richardson
Timmy.J.Richardson@nga.mil
Jerry Curl
jrcurl@amazon.com

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