PARIS — The new director of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) said Nov. 2 the agency will adopt the practices of online retailers and smartphone application developers as it seeks not only to change the way it distributes satellite imagery and related intelligence products, but also the way end users can interact with the data.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.