NGA Rapid Capabilities Office to embrace speed and risk-taking

Published on May 6, 2026

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,” […]

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