USGIF Appoints First-Ever Young Professional Board Member

May 12, 2010

Herndon, Va.—The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) today welcomed its first Young Professional Board Member: Mr. Alex Martinez, Staff Engineer, Lockheed Martin.

With the ongoing shift within the Defense and Intelligence Community from Baby Boomers to Generation Y, the USGIF Board of Directors not only envisioned the future of the Foundation as a priority, but also that of the industry itself. In order to fulfill the need for representation of future leaders in the Intelligence Community, the Board created a Young Professionals seat. The position is for one year, voting member who exemplifies all the qualities of a future leader and represents GEOINT Young Professionals as a whole.

“The Board is excited for this new change and is looking forward to the dynamic Alex will bring as USGIF’s first Young Professional Board Member,” said Stu Shea, USGIF CEO and Chairman of the Board. “Including a Young Professional on our Board will further help us support the tradecraft and continue to fulfill our mission of strengthening the future of the GEOINT Community.”

Alex joined Lockheed Martin in 2002 after graduating from Duke University and has spent the majority of his career working on programs supporting the Intelligence Community around Washington, DC. Alex first joined Lockheed Martin as a system engineer and spent two years working in roles of increasing technical responsibility on an imagery exploitation program. He next led the infrastructure stand up of a 100 person product center on schedule and budget. Moving into technical leadership, Alex was the product lead for a 20 person engineering development team. Lastly, he directly supported members of the government Senior Executive Service while acting as the contractor lead in charge of building an agency-wide ten year strategic roadmap. Starting this summer he will focus on ISR and UAV capabilities while at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs division.

Since its inception in 2004, USGIF has depended on its Board of Directors for guidance and strategic planning to better serve the GEOINT Community. The USGIF Board of Directors ranges from Intelligence Community icons to leaders within academia to industry visionaries. Martinez joins K. Stu Shea, CEO and Chairman of the Board, USGIF, President, Intelligence, Security and Technology Group, SAIC; Peggy Agouris, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University; Dr. William L. Ballhaus, CEO and President, DynCorp International Inc.; Aimee Correnti Vice President of Operations, USGIF; Joan Avalyn Dempsey, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton; Paul L. Graziani, President and CEO, Analytical Graphics Inc.; Leo A. Hazlewood, Senior Vice President, Mission Integration Business Unit, SAIC; Jeff Jonas, Chief Scientist, IBM Entity Analytics, IBM Distinguished, Engineer, IBM Software Group; Brig. Gen. Michael G. Lee, USAF (Ret.), Vice President and General Manager, Military Services, Intelligence Solutions Division, General Dynamics; Keith J. Masback, President , USGIF; James A. Myer, President, Photon Research Associates Inc., A Raytheon Company; Matthew M. O’Connell, CEO and President, GeoEye; Stephen S. Oswald, Vice President and General Manager , Intelligence and Security Systems, The Boeing Co.; Herbert F. Satterlee III, CEO, Novariant; Jill Smith, CEO, DigitalGlobe; Michael M. Thomas, President, Global Security Solutions, Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Services; Christopher K. Tucker, Principal, Yale House Ventures. Emeritus Directors include Jack Dangermond, President, ESRI; Dr. Michael F. Goodchild, Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara; Arthur V. Grant, Vice President, Raytheon; John T. Werle, President and CEO Solar One Systems Inc., Chairman of the Board, Open Geospatial Consortium Interoperability Institute.

USGIF is a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to promoting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and developing a stronger GEOINT Community with government, industry, academia, professional organizations and individuals whose mission is the development and application of geospatial intelligence to address national security challenges. For more information, please visit www.USGIF.org.

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