Symposium Draws GEOINT Leaders
GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON INTEGRATION FOR COLLABORATION.
Senior military and intelligence officials will be at the top of the agenda when the GEOINT 2007 Symposium is held in San Antonio, Texas, October 21-24.
The symposium, sponsored by the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), is widely viewed as the premier annual event for those involved in using geospatial intelligence for national security objectives. The theme of the annual event this year is “Integration for Collaboration: Enabling a Seamless Enterprise.”
Along with keynote addresses by government and industry leaders, the conference will include interoperability demonstrations, panel workshops and extensive networking opportunities. In addition, an exhibit floor of over 100,000 square feet will showcase the more than 80 companies and government agencies enrolled at press time, drawing an estimated 2,500 attendees.
The Exhibit Hall will also showcase geospatial research and development projects by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and academic institutions, emerging technologies, the growing number of college and universities offering Geospatial Intelligence Certificates and a roundtable on geospatial intelligence tradecraft.
The themes of the symposium are evident in the titles of the blocks of sessions being held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center: “Supporting the Warfighter: Delivering Actionable Intelligence to the Right Person, at the Right Place, at the Right Time,” “Analysis Transformation,” “GEOINT is the Foundation for the Seamless Enterprise,” “Integration of Foreign and Domestic Intelligence” and “AGI: Advancing Geospatial Intelligence.”
Invited and confirmed speakers at the symposium as of press time included:
• Charles E. Allen, assistant secretary, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
• Marine Corps General James E. Cartwright, vice chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., who is also a former director of NGA.
• Bill Crumm, SIGINT director, National Security Agency.
• Marine Corps Major General Michael E. Ennis, deputy director for community HUMINT, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
• Donald Kerr, director, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
• Air Force Major General John C. Koziol, commander, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency.
• Army Lieutenant General Michael Maples, director, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
• Navy Vice Admiral Robert B. Murrett, director, NGA.
• Air Force Lieutenant General Henry A. Obering III, director, Missile Defense Agency.
• Dennis J. Richardson, Australian ambassador to the United States.
• Dr. Anthony J. Tether, director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
SESSION PANELS
Each of the session blocks includes one or more panels of government officials offering analysis and discussion of specific topics. Following is a list of invited or confirmed participants in each workshop:
• “The View From Downrange”—Rich Haver, vice president for intelligence strategy, NGC; Army Brigadier General Jeff Horne, director of mission support, NRO; Army Colonel Jerry Blixt, Forward Support Team, NGA; Marine Corps Colonel Keith Lawless, G2, Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command; and Army Chief Warrant Officer, Mike Harper, Buckeye program representative, Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC).
• “Strategic Analysis Transformation”—Kate Hall, director, analysis and production, NGA; Brian Biesecker, technical director, analysis and production, NGA; Thomas Fingar, principal deputy director for analysis, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); Ralph Haller, director, imagery intelligence, NRO.
• “Transforming Analysis at the Tactical Level”—John Powers, Defense Joint Intelligence Operations Center, DIA; Edward Bair, Army program executive officer, intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors; Eric Benn, technical executive, Analysis and Production Directorate, NGA; and Scott White, director of support, CIA.
• “Globally Implementing GEOINT Based on the Rules of the Foundation”—John Teufert, CISD GIS Team, C3 Agency, NATO; Kevin Backe, director, research and development, Army TEC; Kim Robson, deputy director, DNI Open Source Center; and Karen Thomas, Source Assessment and Global Foundation Group, NGA.
• “Establishing a Multi-Int Enterprise”— John Brantley, acting deputy chief information officer, ODNI; Scott Charbo, chief intelligence officer, DHS; Bobby Laurine, chief intelligence officer, NGA; and Wim Van Cappellen, GIS project manager, NATO.
• “Sharing and Integration of GEOINT for International Missions and Coordination”—Dawn Eilenberger, director, Office of International Policy, NGA; Air Commodore Mark Ashwell, director, intelligence collection strategy and plans, U.K. Ministry of Defence; Elizabeth A. Milne, assistant secretary, capability systems, Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation, Australia; and Colonel Neil Thompson, director of geospatial intelligence, Canada.
• “Sharing Intelligence for Domestic Missions”—Robert Zitz, deputy associate director, Secret Service; Maureen Baginski, special adviser, FBI; Captain Curtis L. Dubay, chief, Office of Systems and Architecture Maritime Domain Awareness, Coast Guard; and Randall M. Fort, assistant secretary, intelligence and research, State Department.
• “The Vision and Implementation of AGI”—Ambassador Kenneth Brill, director, National Counterproliferation Center, ODNI; Curt Rowland, senior intelligence engineer, Data Exploitation Directorate, National Air and Space Intelligence Center; John Stubstead, deputy undersecretary of defense for science and technology, Office of the Secretary of Defense; and Will Troxel, director, research and development, NRO. ♦
