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college the instructional program codes, the committee chose or university and the number of experienced indi- relevant fields of study to track by matching the descripviduals employed in occupations that require relevant tions of the instructional programs to the skills, degrees, knowledge or skills. For example, one source of NGA or coursework identified for the core and emerging employees is former military officers, who have received areas (Chapters 2 and 3)
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. The area with the lowest number were conferred for the possibly relevant instructional of relevant instructional programs is photogrammetry, programs (Table C.3 in Appendix C)
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tics, general; A more realistic "upper bound" on the number • human geography: political science and governof graduates was determined by focusing on the 109 ment, general; history, general; sociology; instructional programs considered by the committee • visual analytics: information science/studies; to be highly relevant to the core and emerging areas. graphic design; and Figure 4.2 shows the number of bachelor's, master's, • forecasting: political science and government, and doctorate degrees conferred in 2009 in highly general; sociology.
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Accessed via WebCASPAR. fields highly relevant to crowdsourcing and GIS and Growth rates in the number of degrees conferred geopatial analysis; and a larger fraction of doctorate s in highly relevant fields of study vary considerably by degrees in fields highly relevant to geodesy and geo- area (Figure 4.4; Table C.5, Appendix C)
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For the other core and emerging were not reported until 2004. areas, several instructional programs potentially offer The degree data compiled by the Department some relevant knowledge and skills.
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SOURCE: Data from the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics' Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Completions Survey.
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a closely related instructional program (e.g., geodesy Accounting for the number of university programs and geophysics, cartography) and/or a small number TABLE 4.1 Estimated Annual Number of Graduates at All Levels with Knowledge in a Core or Emerging Area Number of Universities with Training in a Number of Graduates with Knowledge in a Number of Graduates in Relevant Fields of Studya Core or Emerging Areab Core or Emerging Area Geodesy and geophysics • 5,979 total graduates 60 universities for geophysics hundreds • 213 geophysics and seismology graduates 20 universities for geodesy • 28 surveying engineering graduates Photogrammetry 28 total graduates, all in surveying engineering 15 universities few tens Remote sensing 35,427 total graduates 63 universities hundreds to thousandsc Cartographic science • 14,779 total graduates 35 universities hundreds • 165 cartography graduates GIS and geospatial analysis • 9,917 total graduates 189 universities thousands • 5,615 geography graduates GEOINT fusion 21,656 total graduates 12 universities tens to hundreds Crowdsourcing 6,469 total graduates 10 universities tens to hundreds Human geography 155,016 total graduates 10 universities tens to hundreds Visual analytics 17,678 total graduates 15 universities tens to hundreds Forecasting 101,121 total graduates 100 universities hundreds to thousands a See Table C.6, Appendix C
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ization.3 Given these caveats, the occupations with the The Occupational Employment Statistics program most notable differences in salary are astronomers and classifies occupations using the Standard Occupa- historians, which have mean annual salaries that are tional Classification system. The codes and descrip- more than 50 percent higher in the federal sector than tions for the 36 occupations chosen by the committee in the private sector.
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The occupation data collected are consistent with the 2000 Standard Occupation Code The talent pool available to NGA is smaller than system but are presented at a higher level of aggrega- the estimates presented above because only U.S. citition in some cases.
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When contrast, the annual growth rate of doctorate degrees citizenship is factored in, the number of new graduates conferred to U.S. citizens and permanent residents at all levels decreases by 7 percent to 214,870, and the over the 2000–2009 period was a modest 0.8 percent, number of experienced workers decreases by 12 percent and the fraction of doctorate degrees conferred to U.S.
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will continue. Based on this resource constraints of an NRC study, the committee assumption, the number of bachelor's degrees conferred chose to estimate the future availability of geospatial in geospatial intelligence-related programs would be intelligence expertise by simply extrapolating recent expected to climb to 367,000 by 2030, the number of
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of the number of degrees conferred to U.S. citizens and permanent residents by year across highly relevant geospatial intelligence-related fields of study.
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Thus, although programs in only a handful of universities. Factoring in the exact number cannot be projected with high con- other information -- including the number of universifidence, it is likely that the supply of graduates in all ties offering programs in a core or emerging area, the geospatial intelligence-related fields of study except size of the professional community, and the number of photogrammetry and cartography will be robust for graduates from instructional programs that produce the the next 20 years.
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If citizens and permanent residents with education is 10-year growth trends in the "upper-bound" estimate likely on the order of tens for photogrammetry; tens continue, the number of new graduates could reach to hundreds for GEOINT fusion, crowdsourcing, 312,000–649,000 by 2030. h uman geography, and visual analytics; hundreds for
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