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GEOINT Symposium 2025 Day Three Recap
GEOINT’s Next Frontier: Space Collaboration and Strategic Alignment The final general session day of the 2025 GEOINT Symposium highlighted the challenges and opportunities in geospatial intelligence. Speakers focused on the critical need for collaboration across agencies, the evolving role of GEOINT in national and global security, and the announcement of an important agreement that will…
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GEOINT Symposium 2025 Day Two Recap
Forging the Future of GEOINT: Interoperability, AI, and Global Collaboration Take Center Stage The second day of the 2025 GEOINT Symposium highlighted evolving challenges in geospatial intelligence, with a focus on the need for interoperability, integration of artificial intelligence, and collaboration across sectors, and of AI in transforming GEOINT workflows, emphasizing its potential to enhance…
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GEOINT Symposium 2025 Day One Recap
Innovation, Integration, and Global Security The critical intersection of innovation, collaboration, and capacity building to address the evolving challenges of modern security emerged as the main theme in keynote remarks and panel discussions on the first day of the 2025 GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis, MO. From workforce development to technological advancements in commercial and…
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GEOINT Foreword 2025 Recap
Emerging Tech, Ethical Innovation, and the Future of Geospatial Intelligence On Sunday, May 18, over 500 participants gathered for GEOINT Foreword 2025. This event is the GEOINT Symposium’s pre-conference science and technology day sponsored by Esri. The event focuses on the promise and limits of emerging technologies in geospatial intelligence. “For the next several days,…
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Reaccreditation: James Madison University
James Madison University (JMU) has achieved reaccreditation of its Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Certificate Program by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF). The reaccreditation extends its recognition through April 2029. This reaccreditation underscores JMU’s commitment to providing high-quality education in the field of geospatial intelligence. Dr. Philip M. Baxter, Assistant Professor in the Intelligence Analysis…
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Lifting Leaders: April 09, 2025
Lifting Leaders: Building Confident and Adaptive GEOINT Leadership On April 9, USGIF proudly hosted Lifting Leaders, a dynamic leadership development workshop designed to empower the next generation of leaders within the GEOINT community and beyond. With a strong focus on inclusivity, confidence, and adaptability, the event brought together professionals ready to invest in their growth…
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Sneak Peeks 2025 – Herndon, VA and St. Louis, MO
2025 GEOINT Symposium Sneak Peeks Offer Previews of What’s Ahead In the lead-up to the 2025 GEOINT Symposium, USGIF hosted two powerful Sneak Peek events, one in St. Louis, MO and another in Herndon, VA. Each offered unique insights into the future of geospatial intelligence and its role in national security. From ground-based logistics…
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Introducing USGIF’s Education Working Group
USGIF has launched its newest initiative—the Education Working Group (EWG)—to unify and enhance GEOINT education across all levels of academia. This collaborative effort brings together educators from higher education, nonprofit organizations, and other educational spaces to foster GEOINT thinking, skills, and methodologies in classrooms nationwide. Key Objectives of the Education Working Group The EWG is…
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A Secure Tomorrow Together: The Critical Role of the GEOINT Symposium for GEOINT Education
By Ronda Schrenk, CEO, USGIF As global challenges become increasingly dynamic and the volume of data deluges decision-makers and intelligence analysts, geospatial-intelligence is foundational for sense-making and decision advantage. Strengthening that foundation requires investment in our profession through the training, collaboration, and technology discovery provided through the GEOINT Symposium. At the United States Geospatial Intelligence…
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Spatial EDGE Recap: February 18th, 2025
The United Stated Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), in partnership with sponsors 3GIMBALS and Esri, hosted the inaugural Spatial EDGE Miami on February 18-19, 2025. This new event type was developed in response to feedback from member organizations outside the Washington D.C., metro area. Spatial Edge events aim to: Strengthen the GEOINT community across government, military,…
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