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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? As our faithful readers know, there is always an abundance of GEOINT-related news the week after the GEOINT Symposium. From the continuing news cycle that started during the event to member companies seeking to maintain their established momentum, there is typically a wide-range of stories from policy and budgeting news to product launches and beyond. So, fire up that second cup of coffee as we take you through all the GEOINT news you need to kick off the work week. Happy Monday!

GeoEye Receives Contracts for Imagery Production Totaling More Than $25 Million
USGIF member company GeoEye just announced that it received two new awards worth more than $25 million — one from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the second one as a subcontract to Boeing.

Satellite Watch: No One’s Quite Sure Where the Space Junk Landed
German space officials are sure that their defunct X-ray telescope satellite entered the Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday, but aren’t sure what exactly happened to it.

DARPA Proposes Satellite Recycling ‘Phoenix’ Program
DARPA just announced its Phoenix Program that would salvage working parts from retired or dead satellites and reuse them on other projects.

GEOINT: Predictions for Growth, with an Asterisk
Directions Magazine Editor-in-Chief Joe Francica provides a thorough synopsis of the GEOINT Conference what the future may hold for the community.

GEOINT 2011: Key Insights on Intelligence Integration and Future Budget Challenges from the Director of National Intelligence
The latest GEOINT Shield blog on GIS Cafe by Marv Gordner of MorganFranklin reinforces that we must not compromise the safety of our nation in the name of budget cuts.

Put STRATCOM in Charge of all GEOINT PED
Defense Systems highlights a key point from Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler’s GEOINT 2011 keynote: we need to better automate processes and make one agency responsible for the managing the overload of data.

Pentagon, NASA Opens Competition for Space Launch Missions
The U.S. government has taken the first steps toward opening up the competition to launch its national security satellites into outer space.

Intel Community Looks to Cloud Computing
In an effort to manage cost savings, the Intelligence Community will be moving more towards the cloud.

Spies Want to Go Open-Source to Stop the Next WikiLeaks
The Atlantic Wire highlights how many IC leaders discussed ways to prevent another WikiLeaks issue at GEOINT 2011.

University Studies Crowdsourcing for Intelligence
George Mason University is starting a program that aims to provide key crowdsourced data to the Intelligence Community.

Washington College GIS Program Helps the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Predict Future Problems in Peru
For the first time ever, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is tapping into the world of academia to help anticipate future problems in the developing nation of Peru.

Tags: Cloud Computing and Intelligence Computing, Crowdsourced Intelligence, DARPA, DARPA and Recycled Satellite Parts, GEOINT 2011, German Satellite Space Junk, NGA, Washington College, Washington College GIS, Washington College GIS and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency