Building National Spatial Data Infrastructures

The National Guard Geospatial Enterprise: New Civil-Military Enablers for the NSDI

—Brian Cullis, Critigen

The National Guard has embarked on an ambitious agenda to organize and mobilize a geospatial enterprise known as "GeoGuard" to better fulfill their diverse missions. This paper will address the unique advantages that the National Guard's engagement will lend to the NSDI vision as well as the inherent challenges to be overcome. At a minimum, the GeoGuard agenda promises to be a powerful catalyst to achieving shared situational awareness across the nation.