GIF 2009 Volume: 7 Issue: 6 (November/December)
Geospatial Intelligence Award Winners Announced
The USGIF announced during the GEOINT 2009 Symposium the winners of its USGIF Awards Program. The USGIF Awards Program recognizes the outstanding achievements and innovations made within the geospatial intelligence tradecraft. The Geospatial Intelligence Achievement Awards and Geospatial Academic Achievement Awards are presented to those nominated by the community and selected by the USGIF Outreach Committee’s Awards Subcommittee.
This year’s recipients are:
• Andrew Schaeffer, Academic Achievement Award—Schaeffer, a student in Basic Analytical Training and the Geospatial- Intelligence Training Program (GITP), completed the grueling five-month long GITP as the honor graduate.
• The Imagery Exploitation Course Team, Academic Research Award—This team produced an 80-hour curriculum introducing students to the exploitation of large volume streaming data and full-motion video, the only definitive advanced level training available in the community.
• Integrated Collection Management (ICM) Program, GEOINT Achievement Award (Government)—ICM achieved unprecedented integration and collaboration successes, enabling NSA, NGA, DIA, NRO and mission partners to improve capacity, versatility and agility in collection and production as a dynamically integrated ISR force.
• Eagle Express Production Team, GEOINT Achievement Award (Military)—The Eagle Express Production Team delivery, organized and led by U.S. Air Force A2U and the NATO C3 Agency Geo Team, met critical needs of the ISAF CJ2 Geo Community at the headquarters and regional command levels in a remarkably short period, which was unprecedented from the NATO perspective. This is the first time in NATO history that all coalition forces are fighting off the same maps.
• Google Federal, GEOINT Achievement Award (Industry)—Geospatial engineers developed a new product from Google, Google Earth Enterprise Portable, which is now being field tested and used in Afghanistan and other areas of operation.
GEOINT 101 Course Taking Spring Registrations
USGIF and Open Intelligence Academy are taking registrations for the next offering of GEOINT 101, which will take place March 23, 2010, at the Intelligence and Security Academy’s office in Reston, Va.
The one-day course, titled “We are all GEOINTers,” provides an introduction to the fundamentals of the GEOINT community, core GEOINT technologies and operations, and the role of GEOINT in national security affairs supporting decision makers and operations.
GEOINT 101 is taught by Keith Masback and Dr. Robert Tomes. Masback is the president of USGIF and a member of the standing Intelligence Task Force of the Defense Science Board. Tomes is president of Liminal Leadership and an adjunct professor of security policy studies at George Washington University.
Those interested in getting into the geospatial intelligence field, newly hired employees working with GEOINT, members of the IC looking for a better understanding of all the intelligence disciplines, and even longtime veterans of the GEOINT community can all benefit from this course. More information about pricing and other courses can be found at the Intelligence and Security Academy Website: www.intellacademy.com.
Allen Receives USGIF Lifetime Achievement Award
Charles E. Allen was named the 2009 USGIF Lifetime Achievement Award recipient at the GEOINT Symposium. USGIF’s Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to an influential member of the geospatial intelligence community who has dedicated much of his or her work to the tradecraft.
Allen has a storied, 51-year career within the intelligence community, most recently serving as under secretary of homeland security for intelligence and analysis. He began his career with the CIA in 1958, holding a variety of positions of increasing responsibility both in analytic and managerial capacities. Allen was awarded the National Intelligence Medal for Achievement in 1983 by Director of Central Intelligence William Casey, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service in 1986 by President Reagan. In 1991, he was presented the CIA Commendation Medal for provision of warning intelligence in Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
In October 2005, CIA Director Porter Goss awarded Allen the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the agency’s highest and most coveted award.
Register Now for the 2010 International Commercial Remote Sensing Symposium
Interested in learning more about the issues affecting the international commercial remote sensing community, such as imperatives for a robust commercial space industry, export control and licensing, improving the application of commercial data, the health of the global industrial base, policy or the future of marketplace?
If so, register now for the 2010 International Commercial Remote Sensing Symposium at www.usgif.org. ICRSS takes place March 3-5, 2010, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C.
Space is limited to the first 500 registrants, and discounted pricing is available for active military, government employees, and full-time academic administrators, educators and students.
The USGIF, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Department of Commerce have partnered to bring perspectives from the user community, industry providers and policy makers to the community.
The full 2.5-day 2010 ICRSS agenda will be available on the USGIF Website in January. Attendees can expect to come away from this event with a better understanding of the current government and commercial marketplace along with its challenges and opportunities, key policies that need to be re-examined, ideas to improve industry-government partnership, future trends, the benefits of commercial remote sensing to society and the global economy, and the perspectives of government officials dealing with remote sensing matters.
Those interested in exhibiting at the 2010 ICRSS should contact USGIF at 888-MYUSGIF.
GEOINT 2010 Planning Begins Interested in Shaping the Agenda? Have you ever wondered how the GEOINT Symposium agenda comes together? We invite any and all USGIF members to participate in the Planning Committee and volunteer to help make GEOINT 2010 successful.
USGIF’s Planning Committee meets monthly to discuss the GEOINT Symposium and plan not only the general session keynote speakers, but also the panel discussions, breakout tracks and many of the lunchtime roundtable discussions.
Each and every part of the plenary sessions, and many of the other components of the symposium, are decided upon by the Planning Committee. Discussions about the agenda begin in January and almost all of the topics and program ideas are locked into place by midsummer. Now is the time to start offering ideas for speakers and panel topics.
If you or someone in your organization is interested in becoming involved with the USGIF Planning Committee and shaping the content of the GEOINT 2010 Symposium, please contact USGIF at 888-MY-USGIF.
The GEOINT Symposium returns to the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn., next year. Mark your calendars for Oct. 25-28, 2010, for the defense, intelligence and homeland security community’s pre-eminent event of the year. Registration will open next summer. Visit the event site at www.geoint2010.com for all of the details.
USGIF Continues to Expand Tech Days
Continuing to provide the GEOINT community a local opportunity to see the comprehensive capabilities of our members and community partners, USGIF is expanding the offerings during its annual Tech Days event.
Produced by USGIF in cooperation with NGA, Tech Days offers both a classified and an unclassified day of technology exhibits and discussions. Join us May 19-21, 2010, in Bethesda, Md., and Reston, Va., for three days of exceptional learning and networking opportunities. On May 19, NGA opens its Bethesda campus for a day of classified demonstrations from the NGA directorates. On May 20, USGIF members display the latest technologies in an unclassified setting at the Hyatt Regency Reston.
USGIF plans to add to the unclassified day the GEOINT 101 course offering and workshop on full-motion video and how our members are finding a new way of doing business as it relates to changes in acquisition, communication and collaboration. Also, USGIF will again host a joint networking reception with other groups from the intelligence and defense community to conclude the unclassified day.
There is no registration for Tech Days, but information about passing clearances and details on the agenda will be available online in early spring. ♦