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• Where’s Santa? NORAD Santa Update

  
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  Merry Christmas eve to all. We hope everyone is having a restful and happy holiday today. The biggest GEOINT-related story of the day is NORAD Santa. Well, it is currently 9:15 a.m. on the east coast and Santa is in Ambon, Indonesia as we speak. And, in an hour, he will be in Koror, Palau. You can track Santa ...
  6 days ago

• GEOINT iPhone App for the War Fighter

  
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  This just goes to show you that there is an iPhone app for virtually anything. Last week, USGIF member company Raytheon announced an iPhone application that tracks friends and foes, shows their positions on live, real time maps and provides secure communications. Called the One Force Tracker, the Raytheon iPhone ...
  1 week ago

• Monday Morning News Kick Off: France Launches Spy Satellite; Chavez will Shoot Down U.S. Drones; and GSA Awards Geospatial Service Agreements

  
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  Once again, it is Monday morning and it’s time for the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? As we ease our way into the holiday — and dig out from the massive snow storm that hit the east coast — many of us are most likely counting the days until we can spend more down time with family. Or, ...
  1 week ago

• Friday’s Food for Thought: Norad Santa and “Charlie Don’t Surf”

  
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  Welcome to once again to our Friday’s Food for Thought post exclusively on got geoint? We hope that everyone is weathering the cold weather (like the pun), surviving the holiday party season , and has all of their holiday shopping done. We are officially seven days from X-mas. So, this means NORAD is kicking ...
  1 week ago

• Unfamiliar Ground: United States and its Allies Still Lack the Data Necessary to Navigate Afghanistan’s Unforgiving Terrain

  
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  Journalists and commentators covering Afghanistan and Pakistan have addressed everything from geopolitics to tribal dynamics, reconstruction aid, and, of course, terrorism. Even the casual observer has probably read stories that have addressed U.S. intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance efforts, most notably ...
  1 week ago

• USGIF Member Companies Carahsoft and ASRC Make Washington Technology “Fast 50″ List

  
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  Reinforcing the viability of the GEOINT sector, two USGIF member companies, Carahsoft Technology and ASRC Management Services, made the Washington Technology “Fast 50″ list for 2009. Washington Technology ranks the 50 fastest growing small businesses in the government market, and the rankings are based on ...
  2 weeks ago

• GEOINT to Play Major Role in Afghanistan Surge

  
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  As we highlighted in our post about President Obama’s decision to add 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan, GEOINT is going to play a major role in how we deal with such a decentralized enemy. In fact, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans on increasing geospatial intelligence for troops in Afghanistan ...
  2 weeks ago

• MIT Wins DARPA’s Red Balloon-Spotting Contest

  
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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers took less than nine hours to find 10 red weather balloons that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) had placed randomly in public places around the United States as part of its “Network Challenge.” The winners from MIT used what is called an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Where 2.0 Conference Early Registration Open; Receive at 15 Percent Discount!

  
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  Location is everything in this day and age. So, much so that USGIF has partnered with O’Reilly Media to cross promote both GEOINT 2010 and the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference. We are also excited to announce that early registration has opened for the Where 2.0 Conference. And, you don’t want to miss out! ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cheaper, Smaller Network of Spy Satellites Gives Troops on the Ground Their Own Eye in the Sky

  
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  We all know that launching and managing spy satellites is a major and challenging endeavor. Do you recall NRO Director Bruce Carlson discussing this at GEOINT 2009? Well, there seems to be a new breed of satellite technology that aims to provide the warfighter with instant real-time images of what awaits them at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gen. McChrystal Video Briefing on the New War Plan – Post Obama Speech

  
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  We were able to find the video of General Stanley McChrystal, Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, briefing his troops right after President Obama’s big speech about the troop surge in Afghanistan. And, Gen. McChrystal has welcomed President Obama’s revised strategy and his decision to add 30,000 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Public Sector Remains Key Customer in Geospatial Market

  
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  According to a recent study by Daratech , a market research firm specializing in GIS, the overall government sector will remain remain strong consumers of geographic information systems (GIS) and geospatial hardware, software, services and data. In 2009, the public sector will account for 40 percent of the $5.3 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Army 3-D Mapping Drone Robot Creates Imagery of Surrounding Areas with Mile-Long Lasers

  
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  The Army has launched a new laser-based 3D mapping robot that can create imagery of the surrounding area by using lasers. It uses a mirror-based LIDAR system that “bounces a laser off a rapidly rotating mirror and gleans environmental information from how long it takes for each pulse to bounce back.” Called ...
  4 weeks ago

• President Obama to Deploy 30,000 Additional Troops in Afghanistan

  
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  In an effort to reverse Taliban gains over the past six months, President Obama has decided to expedite the deployment of 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan. The effort also aims to spur the Afghanistan government in Kabul to match the effort. By the end of May 2010, the plan is to have a total of 100,000 ...
  4 weeks ago

• CIA Chief Panetta Winning Over Doubters at the Agency

  
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  As many of our readers know , Leon Panetta has had a fairly rough go at being the somewhat-new Director of the CIA. Many CIA veterans questioned his lack of formal intel experience, and when he failed to protect the agency from the political backlash over its Bush-era detention and interrogation practices, many felt ...
  5 weeks ago

• Federal News Radio: ODNI Chief Human Capital Officer Ron Sanders Discusses Building a 21st Century Workforce

  
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  Recruiting and human capital management has always been a priority for the Intelligence Community. The ongoing need for finding the right talent to meet the ever growing demands that come with securing our nation will continue to be an ongoing priority. Federal News Radio recently attended the Federal Symposium on ...
  5 weeks ago

• Air Force Space Command Defends Far Reaches of Cyberspace

  
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  Former GEOINT keynote speaker Gen. Robert Kehler, U.S. Air Force, Commander, Air Force Space Command, recently sat down with Defense Systems magazine to discuss the challenges of defending cyberspace, Global Positioning System capabilities and space assets. As many of our reader know, he oversees Air Force network ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Watchmen and The Scientists: Reconciling the Tribes of Space-Based Reconnaissance and Scientific Earth Observation

  
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  Since the beginning of the American Republic, science and national security have had a long history of interplay. While the nature of their interaction has evolved over the centuries, the premise that strength in science is key to strong national security has long been broadly accepted. Traditional formulations of ...
  5 weeks ago

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