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Editor's Perspective
This issue marks a major milestone for KMI Media Group’s geospatial intelligence magazine. After more than six years of publication, Military Geospatial Technology has become the official magazine of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), and taken on a new name, Geospatial Intelligence Forum.
It’s a partnership that offers great benefits to all participants and opens new vistas in providing accurate, timely information to the military, intelligence and industry geospatial communities.
Each issue of GIF from now on will include a column by USGIF President Keith J. Masback, as well as news updates on foundation activities. Judging from the organization’s growing roster of programs and initiatives and crowded events calendar, there should be plenty of things to talk about.
As Masback points out in his column in this issue, USGIF, its board of directors and membership have in just five years created a unique organization that has established itself as a leader in the tradecraft’s continuous growth and success.
We’ll also go out to an expanded circulation to ensure that we’re reaching even more of the key decision-makers throughout this increasingly vital field.
In many other ways, this magazine won’t change that much. We’ll still have feature stories about critical topics of the day, along with opinion pieces, news updates and cover story question & answer interviews such as this issue’s conversation with Brigadier General Jeffrey C. Horne of the National Reconnaissance Office, who offers some especially insightful observations about GEOINT support for the warfighter.
To be honest, though, I think this alliance will provide readers with a product that is better on every page. That’s because we’ll be working with the insiders, the real thought leaders, to develop coverage that is more focused than ever on the issues, trends and technologies that really count.
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