Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, discussed at the recent Satellite 2025 conference how the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the federal workforce was affecting personnel at his agency, SpaceNews reported Monday.
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Focus on the Mission
Whitworth said that the agency’s mission has helped its workers remain focused but nevertheless admitted that “they’re humans, they have stresses.” Still, the agency head expressed pride in the way his personnel are handling the issue and said agency leaders are exerting an effort to be as communicative as possible about workforce reduction plans.
AI Deployment
At the same event, the NGA director discussed efforts to incorporate artificial intelligence into the workflows of his agency’s analysts. Part of the initiative includes the appointment of executives to positions related to AI.
Director of AI Standards
Those appointments include Mark Munsell taking on the role of director of AI standards. Munsell currently serves as NGA chief artificial intelligence officer and director of the Data and Digital Innovation Directorate.
He was also recently named to the 2025 class of Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 Award, which honors the 100 most influential and impactful members of the government and government contracting industry. Munsell’s win this year is his first.
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