POOLING RESOURCES: Sharing code allows agencies to benefit from work done by other developers, saving funds for harder challenges, said GitHub's "government evangelist" Ben Balter.
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia: Much about the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency remains classified, but the US spy agency that maps and analyses the earth is opening up more than ever, from sharing computer source code on a public website to tapping new sources of intelligence.
The NGA's director, Robert Cardillo, is leading what he calls a "seismic shift" in the agency's culture to help it better exploit social media, commercially available imagery and other data to continue providing high-level intelligence to the US government.
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