Business Management
GEO has a vast business portfolio; creating data, managing workflows, providing analytics, and a host of scientific processes and services. To support this, the Business Management team assists with specialized services that better enable GEO activities through partnership agreements, stakeholder funding, and internal business and financial tracking.
- Providing Contracting Officer Representative (COR) support to Program Managers, SMEs and Technical points of contact (TPOC) for Geospatial Data acquisitions and services contracts.
- Providing project management support in the organization of resources and scheduling the implementation of programs within GEO.
- Provides FPAC program and technical leadership to interagency initiatives and technical advisory committees, including but not limited to, NAIP, National Digital Ortho-imagery Program (NDOP), 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), USDA Remote Sensing Coordinating Committee, USDA Enterprise Geospatial Management Office (EGMO), and the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).
- Coordinates with government and non-government agencies for the acquisition of needed spatial and topological data sets.
- Records Information and Management responsible for establishing and implementing policies, systems, and procedures to capture, create, access, distribute, use, store, secure, retrieve, and ensure disposition of GEO’s Historical Imagery records and information.
- Custodianship of the USDA Film Library containing ~65,000 cans of aerial film, representing nearly 10 million images for American agriculture land dating back to 1950’s.
