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NGA St. Louis is officially open.
In 2016, the announcement by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency that it was building its new, state-of-the-art headquarters in St. Louis spurred the growth of the region’s geospatial technology sector. Throughout the last decade, that announcement has helped put our region on the map as a global hub for geospatial.
Today, as local, state, and federal leaders gathered to cut the ribbon on the $1.7 billion facility, a new chapter of growth kicks off for our geospatial sector: the St. Louis region advances as a national leader, using geospatial technology to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges while creating jobs and driving investment and innovation here at home.
The Bottom Line: St. Louis’ geospatial sector was already known as a hub for technology, but NGA’s opening will catalyze our development as a global leader, ready to lead on everything from artificial intelligence to defense technology. And our geospatial sector is leading innovation at the intersection of geospatial and other critical sectors like agtech, advanced manufacturing, and biosciences.