NGA Rapid Capabilities Office to Embrace Speed and Risk-Taking

AI ‘blueprint’ coming soon to NGA to help ‘operationalize’ GEOINT

In her first major speech since taking the reins at NGA, Lt. Gen. Michelle Bredenkamp also said the agency has stood up a new Rapid Capabilities Office to speed integration of innovative commercial tech.

NGA Rapid Capabilities Office to embrace speed and risk-taking

DENVER – The job of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) is to “deliver disruptive capabilities to our warfighters faster than emerging threats,” NGA Director Lt. Gen. Michele Bredenkamp said May 6 in 2026 GEOINT Symposium keynote. Achieving that goal will require the new office to “take a lot of risk in acquisition,” […]

NGA’s New Rapid Capabilities Office Taking Risks, Not Seeking 100 Percent Solution

AURORA, Colo.—The new Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) stood up last fall within the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is focused on quickly getting emerging technologies into the hands of operators and […]