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We hope everyone had a productive work week. We are wrapping up the week with a unique Friday’s Food for Thought post that highlights the interesting, funny and down-right bizarre. From coverage of the intelligence community infiltrating the Web 2.0 world, to a bizarre iPhone application for snipers and an Olympic video added in for some light humor.

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Now is the time for young people to embrace careers in geospatial intelligence! The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is launching a concerted effort to bring the young and brightest into our tradecraft. Below is a podcast with USGIF’s Carrie Drake, Exhibitor and Membership Services Manager, a young person who can attest, first-hand, how a career in GEOINT is exciting and rewarding for young professionals.

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USGIF member, Adapx, recently announced some very innovative uses of its Capturx software for digital pens. The company recently came out with a case study about the City of Nashua successfully deploying Capturx for ArcGIS during a recent terrorist drill. The unique application enables designs, maps, and forms to be printed on ordinary paper, marked up with a digital pen, and then simply integrates that data directly into popular Microsoft Office, GIS, and CAD applications.

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We are always excited to tout uses of social media and Web 2.0 tools in our community. USGIF member, ERDAS, recently launched its ERDAS TV, which is a section on www.erdas.com that features informative videos that capture development news and other happenings at ERDAS. These movies (or webisodes) are three to eight minutes in length. ERDAS uses its own YouTube account and integrates the videos onto the ERDAS TV section of its corporate web site. Click here to check out ERDAS TV.

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It’s official. As of yesterday, Mike McConnell is no longer the Director of National Intelligence. According the DNI’s press office, Lt. Gen. Ronald L. Burgess, Jr. is temporarily serving as acting DNI. Burgess is to become the next director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. It made sense that he would submit his resignation, since it was announced on the same day that he would be rejoining Booz Allen.

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Booz Allen Hamilton just releases this press release announcing that the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, will be rejoining Booz Allen once his tenure is up. Below is the press release from Booz Allen, and here’s Washington Technology’s coverage of this story:

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Former Democratic Senator and Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, recently published an Op-Ed that made a case for Leon Panetta being “right one” to fix the CIA’s problems. Making the call that the CIA needs a proven leader who can revitalize and restore the CIA’s credibility, Senator Graham made this statement:

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We are all big fans of the NGA publication, Pathfinder, and we recommend that you all check out the latest issue here. Also, feel free to check out the “Who, What Why NGA?” video here.

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Mark your calendars! BAE Systems, and USGIF member, is hosting a free open house to introduce the new eXtreme Analysis™ (XA) workflows available in SOCET GXP® v3.0. The XA workflows allow users to satisfy analysis and mapping tasks quickly and efficiently, reducing the dependency on multiple tools. Below is more information and the schedule for this event.

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Hope everyone had a productive and eventful week. I believe many of us were tied up in inaugural events earlier in the week — with the latter part of the week focused on getting some work done (and recovering from all the inaugural-related activity). Today’s Friday’s Food for Thought, as always, is full of a mixture of news and topics — from cool iPhone apps to Dennis Blair’s statement to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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