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The U.S. Air force just announced that it is purchasing a fleet of Global Hawk drones that will replace U-2 spy planes, which is the nation’s most iconic aircraft that made famous during the Cold War. The Global Hawk aims to replicate the U-2′s ability to sweep up a broad mix of intelligence from commanding heights and do it more safely and for much longer stretches than the piloted U-2, according to the New York Times.

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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? As always, we hope you had a restful weekend spent with family, friends and loved-ones. But as we always say, Monday mornings are truly inevitable — almost like death and taxes — so what better way to tackle the start of the week than with a summary of all the actionable news you need to operate at peak performance. 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? As always, we hope you had a restful weekend. Perhaps you all enjoyed some pre-Valentine’s Day celebration this past weekend? Or watched Justin Bieber get stumped at the Grammys? Either way, it’s Monday and time to get back into the game. And what better way to do this that by reading our MMNKO post. So, as we always say…fire up that second cup of coffee and read on!

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Once again, innovation is the name of the game on the exhibitor floor at GEOINT 2010. More than 220 exhibitors are bring next generation GEOINT solutions to the next level. This is GEOINT 3.0 brought to life in real time. Be sure to check it out for yourselves and walk the floor. Also, for all you exhibitors out there, please send us your news!

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In what is being billed as a “disruptive innovation,” Northrop Grumman just announced that it won a $517 million Army contract Monday to develop an unmanned combat-surveillance airship that is the size of a football field and can track enemy forces from more than 2,000 miles away. It was also reported that this hybrid “eye in the sky” aircraft can feed the military uninterrupted battle-surveillance data for more than three weeks at a time. Very much sounds like a next-gen GEOINT solution. There was no report as to when this aircraft was going to be built or launched, but we will certainly be covering it. And, heck, we want to see what this thing will look like — a football field is a pretty large thing. You can read more about this deal on here.

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Welcome once again to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? We hope everyone in the mid-Atlantic region was able to enjoy their hibernation brought on by the massive snow storm that hit this past weekend. Many of you may actually be working from home today because of road conditions. Either way, we hope you are maximizing your WiFi connections and have time to check out this week’s MMNKO post. This week, we have a mixture of stories to share: from extended coverage of last week’s Select Committee on Intelligence hearing to news of Apple rejecting any applications using GPS for location-aware ads and more. Fire up that second cup of coffee and read on!

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Once again, it is Monday morning and it’s time for the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? As we ease our way into the holiday — and dig out from the massive snow storm that hit the east coast — many of us are most likely counting the days until we can spend more down time with family. Or, perhaps many are still knee deep in 2010 planning. Either way, we have served up all the latest actionable news stories for you to kick of your week on the right foot. As we always say, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on!

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Here we are. It’s Monday morning and time to dust off the cob webs and kick it into high gear – professionally speaking of course. Today, we have a wide range of GEOINT-related news from the business side (latest on sale of TASC) to the disturbing (space warfare with China) to the entertaining (NKorea’s Kim travels like a rock star). Our intention, as always with this post, is to provide you with a wide range of news stories to help you kick off your work week with professional gusto. So, as we say, go fire up that second cup of coffee and read on and Happy Monday!

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Welcome to our installment of the Friday’s Food for Thought post. Last’s FFT post, we struck a more serious tone with a tribute to those who had lost lives in their 9/11. This week, we have have decided to bring the usual mojo of the FFT back in full force with the theme of the “supergroup.” Often talented musicians leave their famous and respected bands to form supergroups like Cream, the Traveling Wilburys, Audioslave and Blind Faith. In many ways, we work in intelligence community as supergroups. If you are a prime contractor, you often pull together the best subs to form a supergroup to solve some of the most significant intelligence challenges. Oh, and World Classic Rockers — an epic supergroup — is playing at GEOINT 2009.

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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post on got geoint? As always, we hope you had a restful weekend and are fully ready to get back into “the game.” With only a few weeks of summer left, surely many of us are winding down our vacations, thinking about buying school supplies for the kids and preparing for a productive fall business season. We have lots of news to cover this morning. From NY Times cover stories about national security and climate change to the DoD assessing the use of Web 2.0 technologies. Grab the second cup of coffee, double-check that to-do list and scroll down.

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