USGIF and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) bring you the third annual Innovative Tradecraft Competition, an opportunity for USGIF and OGC members to demonstrate innovative GEOINT solutions addressing mission problems through visualization, discovering needles in needle stacks, data sharing, and interoperability. This year, we’d like to see how our community might tackle seemingly intractable problems leveraging GEOINT. Solving proble...

In order to better protect agencies and their users at the next level for the future, a new cyber-security approach needs to be considered. The current approach of building bigger “moats and bridges” with cyber security gateways is no longer sufficient to protect our agencies and IT environments as they move into the future. The transition to cloud-based resources and remote/work from home places data outside of the traditional ga...

Please join USGIF and our Small Satellite Working Group Sept. 24 from 7:30 to 10 a.m. for a robust breakfast discussion focused on advances in commercial space policy. As a follow-up to the two-day Small Satellite Workshop earlier this year, guest speakers will focus on federal government commercial space cybersecurity policy and space commerce policy. Topics:• Space Commerce and NOAA’s role in fostering conditions for the economic...

USGIF’s Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Workshop will bring together a diverse group of individuals from government, industry, and academia to discuss current challenges and strategic initiatives related to the role of artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive computing, and deep learning in geospatial intelligence. We will be joined by today’s visionary leaders in AI to explore this rapidly evolving and dis...

The Multi-INT Tradecraft (MINT-T) Community of Practice (CoP) invites you to its free Community Innovation Exchange (CIE) September 21-25 at the Vencore Conference Center in Chantilly, VA. Invited are analysts, collection officers, and mission-specific or technical subject matter experts. This CIE builds on the tremendous successes of the previous three exchanges for Multi-INT Tradecraft between analysts and collectors as well as providing an...

Held the second Tuesday of every other month, GEOINTeraction Tuesday is a casual networking event where you can develop new relationships, exchange ideas and discover business opportunities. Each event features a guest speaker from the Defense, Intelligence, or Homeland Security Community who shares their views on current issues and answers audience questions. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Susan M. Gordon will be spea...

Held the second Tuesday of every other month, GEOINTeraction Tuesday is a casual networking event where you can develop new relationships, exchange ideas and discover business opportunities. Each event features a guest speaker from the Defense, Intelligence or Homeland Security Community who shares their views on current issues and answers audience questions. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to rsvp@usgif.org

This event will help drive collaboration between government, industry, private and academic sectors supporting homeland security and defense missions. A variety of speakers from DHS, the Components, and other Federal Agencies will participate in a full day’s agenda. Visit technology displays from multiple DHS Components, Directorates and Offices alongside numerous industry exhibitors. Click here to see agenda. This event is part of USGIF...

As part of the Eisenhower Institute Undergraduate Fellows' "national security and intelligence" series, this panel will examine whether the position of the Director of National Intelligence has accomplished the goal that the 9/11 Commission report envisioned.

Held the second Tuesday of every other month, GEOINTeraction Tuesday is a casual networking event where you can develop new relationships, exchange ideas and discover business opportunities. Each event features a guest speaker from the Defense, Intelligence or Homeland Security Community who shares their views on current issues and answers audience questions. Mr. Douglas P. McGovern, Director of InnoVision, NGA; and Ms. Karyn Hayes-Ryan, Compo...