US: The US Department of the Interior has appointed 12 new members to the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC). NGAC is a Federal Advisory Committee sponsored by the Department of the Interior. ​ ​Sanjay Kumar has also been inducted as a member of the NGAC. Kumar joins the committee as a representative of the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC), which he helped formalize and now leads as the CEO and Secretary General. WGIC was launched last year at the 8th Sessi