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Sometimes there is just soo much happening in our sector that we have to extend the Monday Morning News Kick Off into Tuesday. This was definitely the case today. We have a number of stories that we would like to point you to – including interviews with Bruce Carlson, Director, NRO and Tony Moraco, Senior Vice President and General Manager, SAIC in the latest issue of the Geospatial Intelligence Forum, as well as a Washington Post Q&A with the dynamic young CEO of Northrop Grumman, Wes Bush. Lots of insights from industry leaders that you would not want to miss out on! Although this is our Monday morning catch phrase, it seems appropriate to say it today: fire up that second cup of coffee and read on.

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Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post from got geoint? We hope everyone enjoyed the little taste of spring — and tomorrow is the first official day of spring — that we had this week on the east coast. For this week’s FFT post, we thought we would tackle the idea of GEOINT being in the “hands of the people.” Yesterday, we covered an “everyone-as-an-informant” mapping and tracking application called Ushahidi , which made us think…will GEOINT truly be a democratic thing in the future? We will be relying on crowd-sourced data “from the people” to find our enemies? Possibly. The technology and applications are out there.

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It seems that the consumer-driven nature of Web 2.0 is permeating everything these days. Twitter is valued at $1.1 billion. Wikipedia has made encyclopedias go the way of the dinosaur. And, now next-generation online mapping applications are open and allow for users to input locations. One example is PublicEarth, which lets users quickly find categories of locations — romantic, kid-friendly, historic, for campers, etc. And, again, all of the data is inputted by regular people, which means that below the-radar-locations like art galleries, music clubs and underrated restaurants will surely be showcased by people who have microscopic knowledge of regions. To us, we find this very cool. Read more about PublicEarth and other crowdsourcing mapping applications here. It is the future.

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