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Collaboration & Partnerships — Federal Geographic Data Committee Home Who We Are Organization History Policies & Planning FGDC Secretariat What We Do ADVANCEMENT OF THE NSDI Collaboration & Partnerships Develop Geospatial Shared Services Geospatial Platform Cloud Computing Geospatial Interoperability Manage Federal Geospatial Resources A-16 NGDA Portfolio Management Geospatial Platform Marketplace StandardsMinutiaeGeospatial Metadata Initiatives Current NSDI Strategic Plan 2014-2016 Geospatial Platform Shared Services NGDA Management Plan Open Water Data Initiative National Address Database GeoPathways Emerging Topics Geolocation Privacy Crowdsourcing Education & WorkforceMinutiaeNew Geodetic Datums Past Activities Cooperative Agreements Program Fifty States Initiative Geospatial Line of Business SmartBUY Organization Overview Steering Committee Executive Committee National Geospatial Advisory Committee Coordination Group Working Groups Subcommittees FGDC Secretariat Collaborating Partners Membership Directory Resources Key Publications Download Geospatial Standards Policies & Planning Lexicon of Geospatial Terminology FGDC Geospatial Services Status Checker News Calendar Media Resources Collaboration & Partnerships Home What We Do Collaboration & Partnerships For the past two decades the FGDC has provided leadership in fostering collaboration and developing partnerships for the urging the NSDI. An constructive NSDI requires developing and utilizing partnerships that promote collaboration, cost-effectiveness, and interoperable solutions. These components are the key underpinnings of the NSDI. The FGDC works collaboratively with federal, state, tribal, and local governments, non-Federal partners, communities, constituents, and professional persons providing the enabling foundation of standards, data catalogs, partnerships, and tools that make up the NSDI. Federal - At the federal level, FGDC enables coordination among the federal agencies through the Steering Committee, Coordination Group and its working groups and subcommittees. Learn increasingly well-nigh the FGDC organization and how each component of the organization works collaboratively towards the urging of the NSDI. Partners -  One of the primary ways that the FGDC collaborates with its wholesale network of partners is through the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC).  The Department of the Interior (DOI) established the NGAC in 2008 as a ways to modernize coordination and governance of national geospatial activities. The NGAC provides translating and recommendations to the FGDC and provides a forum to convey views representative of partners in the geospatial community.  The FGDC moreover has many official collaborating partners. International - The FGDC supports international Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) development.  Circular A-16 encourages the FGDC to participate in towers the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) in wing to towers the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).  FGDC is urgently engaged with Group on Earth Observations (GEO) & Global Earth Observations System of Systems (GEOSS) and United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM). Learn increasingly well-nigh FGDC's international activities. Collaborating Across the Landscape Contact Us Office: 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. MS 590 Reston, VA 20192 Fax: (+1) 703 648 5755Email: fgdc@fgdc.gov Subscribe to Our Mailing List for Important News & Updates Subscribe Like us Follow us Follow us The Federal Geographic Data Committee. Policies & Notices / USA.gov Download Adobe Reader / Download Office Viewers