The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is seeking AI-powered technologies to automate global geospatial change detection, as the agency looks to reduce manual analysis and accelerate the maintenance of critical intelligence data, according to media reports.

Through a new Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO), NGA is inviting industry to propose innovative capabilities that leverage AI and machine learning to identify meaningful changes across vast amounts of imagery at a global scale.

NGA said advanced automation will be essential as it expands its Foundation Digital Twin effort, enabling continuous monitoring of the physical world and faster identification of locations requiring updates to foundational geospatial data.

It noted that current change detection processes remain labor-intensive, with many commercial tools requiring analysts to manually identify areas of interest before comparisons can be made. The agency is seeking solutions capable of generating vector-based indicators of change with associated metadata, including geographic location, dates, source information, and confidence scores.

The solicitation supports NGA’s mission to maintain accurate Foundation GEOINT, the authoritative geospatial framework used across the National System for Geospatial Intelligence, the Department of Defense, and other intelligence organizations.