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Kick Off 2027 at the USGIF Trajectory Event Center
Planning your team’s 2027 kickoff meeting? Discover a modern, flexible event space in Northern Virginia, just minutes from Dulles International Airport. A new year brings new goals, fresh ideas, and opportunities to bring your team together. Whether you’re planning a company kickoff, strategic planning session, leadership retreat, or team training, the USGIF Trajectory Event Center…
USGIF MLAIWG | LEADERSHIP
USGIF Announces New Leadership for Machine Learning & AI Working Group Todd Jackson steps in as Chair, joined by Vice Chairs Dr. Amanda Fetch and Tim Klawa, as USGIF thanks outgoing leaders Chris Lauber and Kevin Green for their service. The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has named new leadership for its Machine Learning…
USGIF Welcomes Google Public Sector as a Strategic Partner
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is pleased to welcome Google Public Sector as a new Strategic Partner, expanding the company’s engagement with the GEOINT community and supporting USGIF’s mission to build the community, advance the tradecraft, and accelerate innovation. The partnership deepens connections between Google’s work in geospatial AI, cloud infrastructure, and machine…
GEOINTeraction Tuesday: It’s About Automation, Not AI
When NGA’s Deputy Director of Analysis steps to the front of a room and tells an audience of geospatial intelligence professionals that the community’s AI conversation has been asking the wrong question, it carries weight. Dr. Steve Hall is responsible for the analytic output of the nation’s primary geospatial intelligence agency, and on July 28…
Mississippi State University Earns USGIF Accreditation for GEOINT Certificate Programs
MSU’s undergraduate and graduate Geospatial Intelligence certificate programs join USGIF’s network of accredited academic programs. The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has awarded accreditation to Mississippi State University’s undergraduate and graduate certificate programs in Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), recognizing the programs for meeting USGIF’s established Standards and Criteria for GEOINT academic programs. The accreditation is…
Mission Focus: AI First Approaches
At USGIF’s July Mission Focus event, government and industry leaders discussed how AI is shifting from an add-on tool to the foundation of daily intelligence work. Artificial intelligence has often been treated as an add-on: a new tool bolted onto existing intelligence workflows. That era is giving way to “AI First Approaches,” the subject of…
Maritime Domain Awareness Working Group Inaugural Meeting
Opening of the Maritime Domain Awareness Working Group The MDAWG is established to inform and educate the global GEOINT community across industry, academia, and government on a common understanding of tasking, processing, exploitation, and dissemination (TPED) of ground, airborne, space-based, and maritime sensors, derived information, and analytics that contribute to building a comprehensive understanding of…
USGIF Accredits Harris-Stowe State University’s Geospatial Intelligence Program
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) announced today it has accredited the Geospatial Intelligence program at Harris-Stowe State University, recognizing the university’s commitment to expanding access to GEOINT education and preparing students to contribute to the geospatial intelligence community. The program has been awarded full five-year accreditation, effective Wednesday, June 24, 2026, through Tuesday,…
USGIF Announces 2026 Scholarship Award Winners
USGIF is proud to announce the 2026 class of USGIF Scholarship recipients, a talented group of high school seniors, undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students advancing the future of geospatial intelligence. The USGIF Scholarship Program is the only scholarship program for students pursuing GEOINT and related disciplines, awarding more than $2M in scholarships across 153 colleges…
USGIF Reaccredits Delta State University’s GEOINT Programs Through 2031
HERNDON, Va. (July 15, 2026) — The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) and Delta State University have announced the reaccreditation of Delta State’s Geospatial Analysis and Intelligence (GAI) Certificate Program and Bachelor of Applied Science in Geospatial Analysis and Intelligence through June 2031. Following a comprehensive review process conducted between summer 2025 and spring…
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USGIF: The Year Ahead – Your Guide to Programs, Partnerships & Opportunities in FY27
Thursday, October 22, 2026
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GEOINTeraction Colorado: Commercial Services and the DoW
Thursday, November 5, 2026
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Thursday, December 3, 2026
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