USGIF is pleased to announce Letitia A. Long as the 2022 Arthur C. Lundahl—Thomas C. Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in recognition of her myriad achievements and community leadership. With more than four decades of exceptional service in government and industry, Ms. Long has been a trailblazer and steadfast advocate of the GEOINT tradecraft and the Intelligence Community. Her career began as a civilian intern engineer with U...

USGIF kicks off a series focused on the GEOINT equities of the U.S. military forces with a day of programming dedicated to the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force. This day of keynotes and panel discussions is sure to inform participants from around the force about how GEOINT matters to them. It also affords the opportunity for participants from USAF and USSF to share insights with GEOINT partners who are working to ensure the nation’s...

The GEOINT Symposium, which began in 2004, is the largest annual gathering of geospatial intelligence—and possibly intelligence—professionals in the nation. With an average total attendance of more than 3,000, the event is a unique and unparalleled opportunity to speak to your extended constituency spanning government, military, the contractor community, and academia. This year’s theme, GEOINT: The Foundation of Intelligence...

The National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change released by the National Security Council in October of 2021 lists eight separate climate change effects, each of which portends impacts on food security: heat, heavy precipitation and flooding, drought, sea level rise, arctic ice melt, tropical cyclones, coral reefs, and biodiversity. As populations experience stressors over the production and consumption of food, the potential for mass hum...

USGIF is pleased to announce that GEOINT community icon Stu Shea will be awarded the 2021 Arthur C. Lundahl-Thomas C. Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award at the USGIF annual black-tie gathering of the GEOINT community. Stu has nearly four decades serving both government and industry in the intelligence, defense, aerospace, and government services markets. His energy, customer focus, and dedication of his life’s work to the tradecraft of ma...

USGIF's GEOINT Symposium is the largest annual gathering of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) professionals in the nation. As has been proven time and again—and particularly since the start of the pandemic—GEOINT is ubiquitous and provides context to our world. The symposium is a unique and unparalleled opportunity to speak to your extended constituency spanning government, industry, and academia. In addition to keynotes from senior...

Renewed focus on great power competition is an opportunity for the GEOINT community to leverage new technologies to outpace U.S. adversaries. The nation and the geospatial intelligence community are at an inflection point, necessitating a revolution in GEOINT capabilities, the IT architectures that support them, and the organizational cultures and practices to transform at the speed needed to maintain GEOINT dominance. During this event, we...

Join USGIF for its annual GEOINTegration Summit (now virtual), a multi-day event focused on professional self-discovery and personal branding, with new geospatial opportunities for collaborations. While innovation has always been at the heart of geospatial intelligence, technological evolution and disruptive events bring numerous challenges, but also unprecedented opportunities to transform the productivity, capacity, and capability of the geo...

This panel will focus on GEOINT dissemination and collaboration as it relates to operational challenges. Panel members will discuss the challenges of delivering and receiving actionable intelligence from platforms to tactical operators. Dissemination focuses on the sending of imagery and we are in an age where sensors are everywhere (at the tactical level and strategic level) and the need for access is much more synchronous. This group will ex...

Within a matter of a few weeks our workforce changed. Where they work, how they work, how they access data, and how to collaborate. While the cloud and digital transformation created fissures in the foundation of IT security, COVID-19 and the unmanaged security risks of the home work environment cracked it open. Virtually overnight, the Intelligence Agencies have had to secure data and devices outside of a closed environment. What does the fut...