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MILITARY GEOSPATIAL<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1 FEBRUARY 2009<br />
The Magazine of the National<br />
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The House and Senate should have specific subcommittees with jurisdiction<br />
over federal geospatial activities, a new coalition of geospatial organizations<br />
has urged congressional leaders. But geospatial issues should be<br />
designated to existing subcommittees in each chamber, rather than creating<br />
new stand-alone panels, the Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO)<br />
said recently.<br />
“We want to make certain that Congress has an effective structure for<br />
oversight and legislation over the increasing federal government activity in<br />
geospatial technologies, and its relationship with state, regional, local and<br />
tribal government, universities and the private sector,” wrote Cy Smith, COGO chairman and the<br />
Oregon state GIS coordinator.<br />
A focal point is needed, the groups contend, because responsibility for oversight and authorization<br />
of federal geospatial activities is currently spread among more than 30 House and Senate<br />
committees and subcommittees. More than 40 federal agencies include geospatial activities as part<br />
of their mission.<br />
COGO noted that the congressional committee structure also contributes to the inefficiencies<br />
in the executive branch, and provided recommendations for two committees in both the House and<br />
Senate with a direct oversight of geospatial activities that could be logical homes for a geospatial<br />
subcommittee. They are the House Committee on Natural Resources or the House Committee on<br />
Oversight and Government Reform, and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources<br />
or the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.<br />
The groups’ concerns are valid, although I tend to be skeptical of organizational solutions to<br />
issues of priorities and resources. And military and intelligence geospatial topics by their nature<br />
will largely remain under the sway of the national security structure on Capitol Hill.<br />
Even so, this sounds like a useful way to raise<br />
the profile of geospatial technology as a cross-cutting<br />
discipline meeting a wide range of military and civilian<br />
missions.<br />
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