Please join members of GEOINT community to discuss the GeoFuture of the St. Louis region. Members of the GeoFutures Initiative team along with esteemed community colleagues will discuss the mission enhancing intersection of geospatial technology and the defense sector. We look forward to engaging with you on this topic that applies to the entirety of the global GEOINT community.

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...

USGIF continues its mission to bring thought leadership, cutting edge technological presentations, key insight for decision making, and educational and professional development opportunities to the entire geospatial intelligence, trade and academic community. The GEOConnect Series is an accelerated outcome from USGIF’s strategic plan to go digital. The GEOConnect Series will feature multi-session virtual events such as live-streamed or r...

The continuing decline in funds for government agencies poses a great challenge to these agencies to finance their new missions or maintain existing ones. With funds drying out, many agencies are looking for creative ways to move forward with their projects. We believe that our client resilience is an important part of our existence and our business growth, so we got our hands dirty looking for creative ways to enable our clients to achieve th...

USGIF and OGC are pleased to announce the final round of the GEOINT 2020 Innovative Tradecraft Competition on the USGIF GEOConnect Main Stage. During this final leg of the competition, you’ll see some of the best practices in data discovery and alignment addressing mission problems through visualization, discovering needles in needle stacks, data sharing, and interoperability. While we were not able to crown a winner at the GEOINT Sympos...

There has been a lot of excitement about the use of computer vision (CV) and machine learning (ML) technologies for geospatial imagery analysis. As there are many use cases where these technologies can be employed effectively to solve real problems, it is tempting to try and apply them on any problem involving the use of imagery. CV and ML solutions do not typically yield perfect answers, and therefore human+machine teaming becomes a natural a...

Today’s geospatial professionals are increasingly called upon to deliver content in the form of interactive web apps. This can be challenging with traditional architectures, both because of the inflexibility of conventional template-based approaches, and due to major performance issues when delivering large geotemporal data across the web. OmniSci is a GPU database with built-in high performance geographic rendering (capable of handling...

The future of work at NGA requires the amplification of human-machine partnerships and a more productive and collaborative workforce. Increasing the efficiency and ability of NGA’s internal elements to work better together – across classifications – will amplify the intelligence products that we can provide to NGA’s customers. Join USGIF and members of team NGA as we discuss the agency’s model for future work.

Machine-generated data is one of the fastest growing and complex areas of big data. It's also one of the most valuable, containing a definitive record of all user transactions, customer and machine behavior, security threats, user activity, and much more. Join us as we explore the basics of machine data analysis and highlight techniques to help you turn your organization’s machine data into actionable insights. You will be introduced to...

Join us to celebrate The Honorable Susan M. Gordon and her many contributions to the intelligence community as she is presented USGIF’s most coveted award, the Arthur C. Lundahl-Thomas C. Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award. Then stay tuned as she engages in a real-time mentoring discussion with the 2020 GEOINT Symposium Golden Ticket Winners. The Golden Ticket program is offered each year to young professionals 35 years old or younger to...