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Mobile Power Can Speed Geospatial Intell to Battlefront
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s plan for on-demand GEOINT is coming to life with the advancement of mobile technologies.

Pentagon: No More Big Defense Mergers
According to Ashton Carter, the Pentagon’s top acquisitions official, the Defense Department will try to stop consolidation among the nation’s biggest weapons contractors in the face of major budget cuts.

Hubble in the Crosshairs
Are the Russians planning on shooting down American spy satellites? Check out what the Space Review has to say about this here.

Lawmakers Finalize Measure Restricting Government’s Use of GPS Data
Last week, a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers finalized a bill that prohibits law enforcement officials from tracking the location of people’s wireless devices without a warrant or parental consent, or unless an emergency is under way.

Getting In Touch with Digital Data
SIGNAL Magazine highlights how the NGA is asking companies not only to create better keyboard-tethered 3-D imaging platforms but also to bring analysts into the 3-D world through kinesthetic interaction with imagery taken from above areas of interest. Check out our previous post on this RFP here.

CIA Website Brought Down, LulzSec Claims Credit
Big news happened last week in the cyber security arena with rogue hacker group, LulzSec, taking credit for bringing down the CIA’s public facing web site.

Geotagged Photos Guide Army Corps to Seeping Levees in Mississippi Floods
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Emergency Field Office in Lake Village, Ark., is relying on geotagged photos and photo-mapping software to help repair crews quickly reach the precise locations of levee seeps during the historic Mississippi River flooding of 2011.

Why Google Earth Pixelates Israel
Ever wondered why Google Earth images of Israel are pixelated? Learn more here.

USGIF Accepting Presentation Proposals for GEOINT 2011 Interoperability Tech Talks
Have you battled through developing and implementing interoperable services and solutions? Do you have lessons learned, best practices, or just tips and tricks for standing up capabilities and functioning in an interoperable environment? Share your experience and knowledge by presenting at the Interoperability Tech Talks during the GEOINT 2011 Symposium in San Antonio, Texas.

Tags: GEOINT 2011, GEOINT Interoperability Tech Talks, Geotagging and floods, Google Earth and Israel, Government's uSe of GPS data, Mobile GEOINT, No Defense Mergers, Spy Satellites