GEOINT Community Week Hugely Successful

June 6, 2010

USGIF Invitational
Although the day’s rain storms did not allow good weather, the USGIF Invitational still went on as planned at Pleasant Valley and South Riding Golf Courses. More than 150 GEOINT golfers from across industry, government and military participated and helped raise money for the USGIF Scholarship Program. Numerous prizes donated to USGIF were raffled off to lucky participants. Approximately $2,000 was raised on-site in raffle sales and registrations resulting in more than $8,000 in total contributions to the USGIF Scholarship Program.

Army Geospatial and Imagery Conference
More than 450 warrant officers, senior enlisted personnel, and government and industry attendees came out to the four-day Army Geospatial and Imagery Conference (AGIC), May 18-21, at the Heritage Conference Center in Chantilly, Va. Keynote speakers included Mr. Robert Burkhardt, Geospatial Information Officer, U.S. Army, and Director, Army Geospatial Center; Vice Adm. Robert B. Murrett, U.S. Navy, Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and Maj. Gen. Merdith W.B. “Bo” Temple, Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Some of the many panels and group discussions included topics such as NGA NST-A and Army GEOINT Office Roles and Responsibilities, Geospatial Visualization Enterprise Services, UK GEOINT Update, MCE Operations Update, Bukeye and Afghanistan LiDAR Deployment, and an overview of the Web-based Access and Retrieval Portal (WARP).

Tech Days
The sixth annual Tech Days, produced by USGIF in cooperation with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, took place on Wednesday, May 19, and Thursday, May 20. NGA held the classified portion of Tech Days at its Bethesda, Md., headquarters. The day provided workforce and mission partners with a first-hand look at how GEOINT is improving integration and collaboration on the front lines, between allies and analysts, and for disaster relief and recovery missions. USGIF continued Tech Days with its unclassified USGIF Technology Day on Thursday, attracting more than 750 registered attendees plus hundreds of guests from AGIC, the Friends of ISR, the Army Engineer Association and the Advanced Technical Intelligence Association. Emerging technology presentations and an exhibit hall filled with the latest innovative technologies from 58 USGIF Member organizations provided attendees with insight on future GEOINT capabilities. The day concluded with a Community-wide networking reception with the Friends of ISR, ATIA, AEA, AGIC and the USGIF Members and partners.

Motion Imagery Workshop
GEOINT Community Week wrapped up on Friday, May 21 with the Motion Imagery Workshop, part of the USGIF Workshop Series. More than 200 attendees came to hear keynote speeches from Maj. Gen. James O. Poss, U.S. Air Force, Director, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Strategy, Integration and Doctrine, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C; CW5 Thomas R. Dostie, U.S. Army, Chief, GEOINT and Commanding General Advisor, U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence; and Stephen Long, Oversight Executive for Motion Intelligence, ODUSD/TCA, Science and Technology Advisor, ISR-Task Force, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. Three sessions on Operational View, Intelligence Perspective and Strategic Vision also took place during the workshop, providing another opportunity for the audience to engage with the panelists on critical topics affecting the aerial motion imagery community.