Phillip Charles Chudoba - Deputy Director of Intelligence, Marine Corps

Deputy Director, Marine Corps Intelligence, speaks to DGI's Online Editor Dan Mellins-Cohen about integrating other intelligence disciplines and how that will require imposition of standards.

Video transcript:

Perhaps we could just start with a brief introduction to yourself and Marine Intelligence?

I am the Deputy Director for Marine Corps Intelligence and I manage the entire Intelligence workforce on behalf of the Director for Intelligence.

You were looking at the future of intelligence and a lot about collaboration. What were some of the biggest talking points for you?

I think the discussion about standards was very productive.

Our business has got a good history of standards because government and industry does the geospatial business that way. Moving forward to integrating the other intelligence disciplines in there now requires the imposition of standards on those. I think that was a great topic.

When it comes to the new technologies that are coming out and the new developments that are creating the need for new standards, from your point of view, are people actually embracing standards from day one in the new technologies? Are they moving forward in the way that you would like to see?

The problem is we don’t have that connection between the geospatial world and the other intelligence disciplines we are trying to pull in.

Around the conference today, a lot of people were talking about ‘multi-integration’. What this means is that you are using geospatial data as the foundational information.

Picture a digital map onto which you overlay intelligence derived from other collector sources. Those other disciplines simply are not playing at the same level as the geospatial community.