President Donald Trump signed a presidential executive order on Dec. 20, 2017 which could benefit the private-sector geospatial community.  It all depends on how the order is implemented.

The executive order, “Presidential Executive Order on a Federal Strategy to Ensure Secure and Reliable Supplies of Critical Minerals,” contains a lot of language about reducing U.S. dependence on foreign-sourced strategic minerals and the vulnerability of those supply chains to disruption, but it also calls for high-quality geospatial data.