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Only slightly more than 30 days into a new year, and much has already been said about 2010. Some pundits have heralded the year as a clean slate from a tough 2009, while others have been less optimistic, predicting more of the same for the next 365 days. At the macro level, the U.S. economy is still very much in the midst of recovery. The president’s recently released budget indeed presents challenges for many, but national security spending continues to be supported. The Quadrennial Defense Review will continue to be scrutinized, but its commitment to ISR sensors and platforms is unambiguous. Emergent lessons-learned from the attempted Christmas Day attack call for increased investment in analysts and tools to help the “connect the dots.” The National Reconnaissance Office will soon release documents that will be the foundation for the future of our classified overhead reconnaissance. To read all of this, check out the “From the Desk of the President” column by Keith Masback, USGIF President, in the latest issue of the Geospatial Intelligence Forum, the official publication of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, here. And, we urge everyone to get a subscription to the publication if you have not already.

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