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| $12M Fed. Contract to MU to Establish Education Program for NGA |
| 2016-09-01 |
| [KMOX] ST. LOUIS (AP) - The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded a $12 million, five-year contract to the University of Missouri's Columbia campus to train NGA employees. The contract, announced Wednesday, follows the NGA’s decision earlier this year to remain in St. Louis instead of moving to St. Louis County or Illinois. The contract with the College of Engineering will focus on data science and other training needs identified by NGA. The agency anticipates 1,800 working students in St. Louis and Washington, D.C., will participate. NGA employees will be paid for time in class. Those who complete the program will have a graduate certificate in data science and a master's degree from the university. The agency is expected to break ground next year on a new $1.75 billion campus in north St. Louis. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 I still don't know what this boondoggle hopes to accomplish Whit it accomplishes is the pay off to the SJW proggies from this regime for their support for the irrational and harmful propaganda produced by the University that led to their BLM uprising. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-09-01 13:51 |
| #3 the NGA’s decision earlier this year to remain in St. Louis The NGAs are gonna stay? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-09-01 13:00 |
| #2 I still don't know what this boondoggle hopes to accomplish or why it's needed. Here's the gobbledygook: It "is part of the NGA College’s Learning Outreach program that partners with qualified academic institutions and industry partners to address key education and training gaps within the NGA, according to the release. Mizzou will provide a comprehensive data science education program that includes databases and programming, statistical analyses and predictive modeling, data visualization and data mining, cloud-based computing, and machine learning among other specialties... Personally, I think it is just a way of filtering money to the miserable U. of Missouri. |
| Posted by: Glairong Sforza7574 2016-09-01 09:20 |
| #1 Ohio recently landed $400m contract for General Dynamics at their Lima tank plant. Georgia just received a huge order for Lockheed Martin C-130J production in Marietta. Curious timing, and I thought we were broke. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-09-01 08:11 |