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We hope our readers are enjoying the access to the GEOINT 2009 keynote videos. Our intention is to provide a forum for those to re-capture key moments from the event, as well as allow for those who could not attend GEOINT 2009, the opportunity to catch up on presentations that shape the GEOINT community. This morning, we are running the keynote from Mr. Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) who provided a comprehensive view of the recently released “The National Intelligence Strategy,” which sets out the guiding principles: responsive and incisive understanding of global threats and opportunities, coupled with an agility that brings to bear the Community’s capabilities.

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Welcome once again to the Friday’s Food for Thought post. Before we dive into this post, we want to know if you have booked your travel for GEOINT 2009? As many of you saw, we just announced that the new DNI, Dennis Blair, will be speaking, along with Bruce Carlson, the new director of the NRO. Don’t you want to hear their strategic plans for the intelligence community? Speaking of community, we thought that would make an excellent theme for today’s post. We always hear the term “intelligence community” and we hope to dive deeper into the concept of community, and just how important we all are to each other. Consider this post an extension of last week’s FFT post on family. Scroll down and enjoy.

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The troubled waters of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) may be calmed if Dennis Blair, director of National Intelligence, is successful in a new effort to revamp spy agency. The DNI has recently pulled together a panel of high-level intelligence experts to pretty much examine examine every facet of the NRO, including its mission, charter, staffing, requirements, organization, funding and relationship to other organizations.

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My how the times have changed. While climate change was not necessarily a priority for the previous administration, for the Obama team, it is top-of-mind. So much so that the defense and intelligence leaders are acknowledging and even anticipating climate change as being a long-term and significant threat to national security — according to the Christian Science Monitor.

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It’s official. As of yesterday, Mike McConnell is no longer the Director of National Intelligence. According the DNI’s press office, Lt. Gen. Ronald L. Burgess, Jr. is temporarily serving as acting DNI. Burgess is to become the next director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. It made sense that he would submit his resignation, since it was announced on the same day that he would be rejoining Booz Allen.

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Booz Allen Hamilton just releases this press release announcing that the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, will be rejoining Booz Allen once his tenure is up. Below is the press release from Booz Allen, and here’s Washington Technology’s coverage of this story:

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Hope everyone had a productive and eventful week. I believe many of us were tied up in inaugural events earlier in the week — with the latter part of the week focused on getting some work done (and recovering from all the inaugural-related activity). Today’s Friday’s Food for Thought, as always, is full of a mixture of news and topics — from cool iPhone apps to Dennis Blair’s statement to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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As Dennis Blair is being cued up to take over the role of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Mike McConnell is watching the sunset on his tenure in this position. While holding his final news briefing in this position, he covered many things including joking that what he does is “dull stuff,” as well as discussed his wish for the creation of a Department of Intelligence. Pam Benson from CNN provided the following article that captures the essence of McConnell’s tenure and is worth a read.

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The job of being the chief executive of the intelligence bureaucracy, which also includes the daily White House intelligence briefings, is a dual-hatted role that can challenge even the most hard-working and ambitious DNI. This, according to a recent article in GovtTech (taken from the National Journal), which stated that the first two directors of National Intelligence, John Negroponte and Mike McConnell, did not like doing both jobs; in fact, it exhausted them.

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The Associated Press just broke a story about Obama wanting Dennis Blair, as the new and not-yet-announced-or-confirmed DNI, to take on a more streamlined office — and focus exclusively on giving strong direction to the nation’s 16 intelligence agencies.

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