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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? As always, we hope everyone had a restful weekend and are geared up for a productive work week. What does this week have in store for us? Well, our crystal ball is a bit fuzzy this morning, but we expect it won’t be as crazy as last week — with the Washington Post story, Clapper confirmation hearing and more — but one never knows. We do know that this weeks MMNKO post has some very compelling news — from more Clapper confirmation news to a story of a meteorite crater being found via Google Earth. So, as we always say, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on!

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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? As always, we hope everyone had a restful weekend, and yes, it was hot. So now is the time to cool yourself off with some actionable news to jump start your week. Leon Panetta warns of Iran’s threat, Pelosi is creating a potential block to General Clapper being nominated and much more. So, as we always say, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on. Happy Monday!

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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? While we traditionally make this post more of a news round up, we are only going to focus on one story: the announcement of General James Clapper’s nomination to be the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). This is certainly very exciting new for the GEOINT Community, as General Clapper is revered as being the “father” of GEOINT. And, we wanted to remind our readers that we did an exclusive Q&A with General Clapper when we launched this blog at GEOINT 2008. Here’s the link to that post. And, finally, we have included the video of President Obama and General Clapper announcing the nomination from the White House Rose Garden on Saturday. Congratulations General Clapper!

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Happy Friday! With the winter chill taking over DC and all the coverage of the economic stimulus package, there are many funny, weird and interesting stories that may have not made it to the front page of the paper. In this installment of “Friday’s Food for Thought,” we tell you how we really feel about Google Latitude (sometimes it is good to be able to disappear), showcase an egg with the map of earth on it, as well as highlight a map of Madoff’s path of economic destruction. Hope you all enjoy…and please share your thoughts!

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Much of intelligence remains understandably focused on external terror threats, reports Homeland Security Today. DHS’s Charlie Allen is quoted in the piece from the GEOINT Symposium stage.

USDI James Clapper’s keynote received some more play over the weekend in a Washington Post article on the deal reached between Pakistan and the United States regarding airstrikes within the country’s borders.

For one journalist covering the symposium, this information combined with the other keynotes, panels, tracks and exhibits was “like drinking from a fire hose.” That’s good, right?

And from a perspective we don’t see often, one exhibitor new to the GEOINT experience chronicled her personal experiences in Nashville and life as a tradeshow booth personnel.

Enjoy!

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It is not very often that the geospatial intelligence tradecraft makes its way into the highest circulation newspaper in the country. Today, Peter Eisler of USA TODAY did a profile piece on the positives and negatives of the NGA using commercial satellite images. Positives: easier to share with nonclassified folks. Negatives: these images could get into the hands of the bad guys. Read the article here and please let us know what you think.

Before we wrap up for the weekend, we wanted to give props to one of our favorite blogs called CTO Vision by Bob Gourley. Check out his commentary on technology trends in the wake of the Obama election win.

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