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Welcome once again to the Monday Morning Kick Off post. We hope everyone had a restful weekend. As always, we have compiled all the actionable news you need to kick start your work week. Of course, the news cycle these days is being dominated by news regarding U.S. drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Taliban claimed they shot one down, the U.S. has increased it overall strikes in response to the CIA deaths, and the U.K. plans on using drones to spy on citizens. Oh, and of course, we included some more industry related news from the OGC and Envitia. Happy Monday!

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Welcome to Monday morning. As always, we hope our readers had a restful weekend and are ready to tackle the work week with verve and gusto (never thought we would ever use these words on this blog). For this week’s MMNKO post, we have a wide range of stories — from GeoEye and DigitalGlobe earnings to an update on DoD and social media. So, as always, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on. Happy Monday!

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With a multitude of stories happening in the intelligence sector, we thought it would be prudent to do a Thursday morning “intelligence brief,” which should provide you with enough actionable information to get you through your morning coffee. We kick off with a story about Obama being briefed, daily, on the impact of the global economic crises on our nation’s security and end it with a story about using intelligence to combat gang violence. Hope you have a productive morning.

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We get excited when efforts we support garner press coverage. As such, the Empire Challenge, hosted by the U.S. Joint Forces Command and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, received nice coverage in CNET yesterday — and it highlighted some interesting realities about interoperability, comparing spy movies to what is reality.

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