{"id":467,"date":"2013-12-30T17:55:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intelligencecommunitynews.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2013-12-30T17:55:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:55:34","slug":"umbc-training-centers-wins-contract-from-national-geospatial-intelligence-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelligencecommunitynews.com\/umbc-training-centers-wins-contract-from-national-geospatial-intelligence-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"UMBC Training Centers wins contract from National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hrabowski\"<\/a>The fast-growing UMBC Training Centers LLC<\/a>, a unit of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, has been awarded a contract that could be worth nearly $3.7 million by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to offer courses to the NGA\u2019s mid-level GEOINT analysts and other agency employees.<\/p>\n

The courses would be delivered as part of the NGA\u2019s \u201cAcademic Outreach\u201d program, which aims to develop academic partnerships with accredited regional and national colleges and universities, according to the NGA\u2019s award announcement published on December 30.<\/p>\n

UMBC Training Centers LLC, which is headquartered in Columbia, MD, will be expected to offer NGA students a wide range of courses, including critical thinking, spatial thinking and methodologies, cartographic presentation and visualization, international relations theory, human geography, regional studies of North Africa, Middle East or Asia Pacific, and a \u201ccapstone course\u201d on advanced geospatial intelligence analysis.<\/p>\n

In its solicitation, NGA indicated that it planned to award a contract with a one-year base period, plus four one-year option periods. If all options were exercised, the award to UMBC Training Centers could generate revenues of $3,667,373, says the agency\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n

\u201cUMBC Training Centers is the premier provider of technical, engineering and professional skills training in the Mid-Atlantic region for individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations and government agencies,\u201d says the Web site of UMBC Training Centers, which was founded in 2000. \u201cOur exclusive Rapid Applied Learning (RAL) unites highly interactive, participatory learning and exceptional content with UMBC\u2019s instructional excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n

University of Maryland Baltimore County\u2019s rapid growth (from 2010 to 2013, UMBC\u00a0was ranked as the #1 Up-and-Coming National University by U.S. News and World Report) <\/i>has caught the attention of the national media.<\/p>\n

Here is a segment by 60 Minutes<\/i> about UMBC\u2019s charismatic president, Freeman Hrabowski III.<\/p>\n