# Automation AI and Machine Learning Can Fuse Data for Sense-Making by Frank Whitworth > "To manage the significant growth in the volume of GEOINT data and data sources available, NGA is making significant investments in automation to speed workflows, as well as AI/ML to fuse data to enable sense-making. We are leveraging computer vision to rapidly exploit data; using advanced modeling techniques to understand, correlate, and predict activity; and integrating automated modeling capabilities to prompt dynamic collection." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 14, 2025, 2025 HASC Testimony on National Security Space Programs* ## Sources and Context - **Direct official source and complete contiguous wording:** [2025 HASC Testimony on National Security Space Programs](https://www.nga.mil/news/Testimony_of_VADM_Frank_D_Whitworth_before_the_Hou.html) — The NGA director describes the full automation, fusion, prediction, and dynamic-collection architecture in congressional testimony. - **Routing classification:** CT-enabling official GEOINT testimony. This label describes the quotation's relationship to the counterterrorism technology stack; it does not alter the speaker's wording or claim that every cited system has a direct counterterrorism mission. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/A History of Machine Intelligence|A History of Machine Intelligence]] - **Article:** [[articles/Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Measures and Countermeasures|Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Measures and Countermeasures]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/National System for Geospatial Intelligence|National System for Geospatial Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Multi-Sensor Fusion|Multi-Sensor Fusion]] - [[wiki/Automated Target Recognition|Automated Target Recognition]] - [[wiki/National Reconnaissance Office|National Reconnaissance Office]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "To manage the significant growth in the volume of GEOINT data and data sources available, NGA is making significant investments in automation to speed workflows, as well as AI/ML to fuse data to enable sense-making. We are leveraging computer vision to rapidly exploit data; using advanced modeling techniques to understand, correlate, and predict activity; and integrating automated modeling capabilities to prompt dynamic collection." — Frank Whitworth, May 14, 2025, 2025 HASC Testimony on National Security Space Programs https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ct-conference-automation-ai-and-machine-learning-can-fuse-data-for-sense-making ```