Captain Martin Jones

Captain Jones has conducted military hydrographic surveys throughout many regions of the globe as an IHO Cat A and Charge qualified military hydrographer and has commanded 3 ships. In his current role he is the policy lead, the Defence Authority and Joint User for Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Capabilities additionally responsible for managing the pan defence requirement for defence Foundation Data from UKHO, UKMetO and the Defence Geographic & Aeronautical Information Centre. He also directs the UK GEOINT International Collaboration programme to enable interoperability and burden share via a range of bilateral and multilateral agreements.  As Director of the multinational Defence Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) he drives coherence across international military geospatial standards - most notably managing the building blocks for the NATO Geospatial Information Framework, but also focused on defence Imagery and Gridded Data, Portrayal and Symbology, Metadata and Web Service standards design.  He is the UK Governance lead within the Allied System for GEOINT - a Five Nation Commonwealth union and UK lead for the UK/US airbreathing imagery exploitation collaboration, responsible for delivery of the UK node of the Distributed Ground System. He chairs the NATO/PfP Geospatial Maritime group delivering a burden sharing co-production programme across member nations.