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Our nation is facing a crisis in geography literacy. Young adults in the U.S. ranked at the bottom of recent geographic literacy surveys, and 63 percent of them cannot even locate Iraq on a map of the Middle East, according the National Geographic Society. And, we all know that geography education is vital in helping us grow the next-generation of GEOINTers who will be critical in keeping our nation remain competitive and be on the cutting-edge of innovation. To help overcome this massive challenge, the National Geographic Society is urging everyone to take part in the “Speak Up For Geography: The 10,000 Letter Challenge” public campaign.

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Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post from got geoint? Our faithful readers may have seen our post yesterday about the USGIF Awards program (deadline is today!), we have many talented, visionary and hard-working professionals in the GEOINT community. We would go so far as to say, we have some GEOINT rock stars in our midst. As such, we wanted to make this week’s FFT post about extraordinary people and what it takes to be a major success. Is it all about in-born talents? Or does it take good old fashioned hard work? Perhaps it is a mixture of both. We try to tackle these questions today. Hope you enjoy and happy Friday!

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Now that we have had a couple of days to rest up and recover from GEOINT Tech Days (Wow, that GEOINT Tech Days Gala was quite an evening on many levels.), we are ready to dive back into covering the latest and greatest news from the defense and intelligence world. So, essentially we are making up for last week and focusing on news stories that impact what we do and, hopefully, provide the actionable intelligence you need to kick off the week. This week’s installment of the “Monday Morning News Kick Off” post includes everything from Philip Mudd withdrawing his name as DHS intelligence chief to an update on the “Cyber Olympics.” Scoll down to read more.

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