Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Ronald S. Moultrie passes the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency colors to Navy Vice Adm. Frank D. Whitworth III, the incoming agency director, during a ceremony held at NGA Campus East June 3. The passing of the colors is a historic military tradition symbolizing a transfer of power from one leader to another. (Credit: Anthony Boone)
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia – Navy Vice Adm. Frank D. Whitworth III assumed command as the eighth director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency during a ceremony at the agency’s headquarters here June 3.
Whitworth, who replaces Navy Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, takes the helm at NGA after previously serving as the director for intelligence on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon.
