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As the GEOINT community continues to grow, USGIF believes that it is important to increase the involvement of young people as they will become the future GEOINT leaders of our industry, government and academia. As such, in 2009, the USGIF Young Professionals Group (YPG) was formed to unite junior GEOINT professionals within the Defense and Intelligence communities. This group offers events and programs that parallel the Foundation’s mission of advancing the geospatial intelligence tradecraft. Today we are speaking Mike Campanelli, Sr. Systems Engineer, RadiantBlue Technologies about the value of being a YPG volunteer. And, be sure to check out the new YPG newsletter here!

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With a tremendous amount of change happening in the GEOINT sector these days, we are always excited to connect with Intelligence Community (IC) veterans who can lend there perspective on things. Today, we are speaking Darryl Garrett, an IC veteran who had a 25-year career at the CIA, as well as played major R&D roles at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Mr. Garrett also consults for a number of companies and organizations in the GEOINT sector and sits on many boards.

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As the GEOINT community continues to grow, USGIF believes it is important to increase the involvement of young people as they will become future GEOINT leaders of industry, government and academia. As such, in 2009, the USGIF Young Professionals Group (YPG) was formed to unite junior GEOINT professionals within the Defense and Intelligence communities. This group offers events and programs that parallel USGIF’s mission of advancing the geospatial intelligence tradecraft. Today, we are speaking with one professional who has played a pivotal role in the YPG, Ms. Julie Baer who is a Government Affairs Associate at GeoEye.

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The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation and Geospatial Media & Communications, hosts of Geospatial World Forum 2012, just solidified a partnership where USGIF will be playing a key role at this international event. Today we are speaking with Sanjay Kumar, CEO of Geospatial Media & Communications and Keith Masback, USGIF President, (both pictured above) who will be discussing this partnership and much more.

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USGIF member company GeoEye is always on the cutting-edge when it comes to providing imaging products, as well as services and solutions to customers around the world. We were recently fortunate enough to spend some time with USGIF Board Member Mr. Matt O’Connell, who is GeoEye’s CEO and Director. Check out this exclusive podcast with Mr. O’Connell who discusses key trends in the use of commercial imagery, as well as the commendation that GeoEye received today from the Governor of Virginia for its support of Hurricane Irene disaster response efforts.

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TerraEchos develops solutions that collects data as it streams, allowing end users to make sense of it and act on it for monitoring and security. As we all know in the GEOINT sector, the management of ‘big data’ has always been a challenge. Today we are speaking with Alex Philip, President and CEO of TerraEchos to learn more about the company’s solutions. He also highlights key solutions for dealing with the ‘big data’ challenge.

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Each year, USGIF brings on a new board member who represents the foundation’s Young Professionals Group (YPG) and serves as the YPG working group’s chair during his or her one-year term. This YPG board member has full voting power within the board and exemplifies all the qualities of a future leader and represents GEOINT Young Professionals as a whole. Last year, Mr. Alex Martinez, Staff Engineer at Lockheed Martin, served in this role. And, now he is passing the baton the newest YPG board member Mr. Eric Zitz, who is an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. Following is an exclusive podcast with both Alex and Eric, who discuss the role of young people in the GEOINT community and much more.

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Penn State University recognizes achievement by a graduate student who is serving or has served in the U.S. Armed Forces or with the U.S. Intelligence community with its Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award in Geospatial Intelligence – named after Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a United States Navy SEAL who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, for his actions in 2005 during the War in Afghanistan. There are actually two winners this year. Following is an exclusive podcast with Bill McDevitt, Senior Mission Planner for SAIC and Vanessa Damato, who is the lead Geospatial Scientist at Special Operations Center – Pacific Command (SOCPAC) Pattern Analysis Section. Both just received this prestigious award at the GEOINT 2011 Symposium.

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USGIF member companies Global Marketing Insights and The SI Organization will be unveiling the Intelligent Data Exploration and Analytics System (IDEAS) at GEOINT 2011. In addition, Global Marketing Insights and The SI Organization will be showcasing a unique promotion that will encourage attendees to meet the partner organizations involved with bringing IDEAS to life. Be sure to visit the IDEAS Team Wizards in booths #1106, #300 and #264, and you might win a Kindle. In the meantime, following is an exclusive podcast with Shawana Johnson, President of Global Marketing Insights, and Chris Vasko, Chief Strategist for The SI Organization.

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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Civil Applications Committee facilitates access to U.S. National Systems space-based electro-optical (EO) imagery for natural disaster response; global change investigation;, ecosystem monitoring; mapping, charting, and geodesy; and related topics. The committee’s Global Fiducials Program has overseen the systematic collection of this high-resolution imagery to provide controlled geospatial data time series spanning a decade or more at carefully selected sites to study and monitor changes. Following is an exclusive podcast with Bruce F. Molnia, Ph.D., Executive Director, Civil Applications Committee for USGS. Be sure to check USGS at GEOINT 2011 next week as well!

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