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ORISE Fellow at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) provides recent graduates with challenging research opportunities to help prepare motivated students for a career in STEM while providing them with laboratory knowledge to use in pursuit of an advanced degree. Recent bachelor’s and master’s degree graduates are in a position to gain invaluable research experience in one of more than a dozen STEM-related disciplines. For scientists who have recently completed their Ph.D. in a science-related discipline, a postdoc research fellowship can make an excellent start to a career at a DOE national laboratory or other federal research facility.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responders. Anyone who sails a U.S. ship, flies a U.S. aircraft, makes national policy decisions, fights wars, locates targets, responds to natural disasters, or even navigates with a cellphone relies on NGA. NGA enables all of these critical actions and shapes decisions that impact our world through the indispensable discipline of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT).

NGA is developing new methods using statistical models to correlate events unfolding on the ground that are characterized by sequences of observations and reports. These methods should go beyond mere data discovery to expose causal or hierarchical relationships among active entities as revealed in the activities described in these observations and reports, and quantify the level of confidence in these relationships using statistically valid measures. The models should not only capture the temporal dynamics of an entity’s activities, but also provide sufficient understanding to allow conclusions with partial data, the identification of hidden dependent variables, and the creation of plausible and verifiable predictions of future activity. NGA is particularly interested in generalizable methods to identify classes of dynamic processes, related diagnostic variables, and create predictive models. NGA anticipates using the fruits of this effort to assist analysts in discovering correlations and patterned relationships among actors and events, and to make reasonable predictions of future courses of action and their consequences. 

Headquartered in Springfield, VA, with facilities in St. Louis, MO, NGA is a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency.