Mizzou receives million, 5-year contract to train NGA employees in St. Louis, Washington DC
ST. LOUIS • Several months after confirming the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is in fact staying in St. Louis, the agency announced a $12 million contract to the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus to train NGA employees. The five-year contract to Mizzou’s engineering school — the largest contract in the College of Engineering’s history — is aimed at data science and “key education and training needs identified by NGA.” Curt Davis, director of the engineering school’s Center for Geospatial Intelligence, said the process of acquiring the contract started more than a year ago. The NGA anticipates 1,800 working students in St. Louis and Washington, D.C., participating in the graduate certificate program, and Davis expects them to span from early career and beyond. “Our faculty are thrilled to be able to support NGA’s effort to…
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