May 15, 2008
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Tradecraft Roundtable
USGIF Technology Day


Join us for the Geospatial Intelligence Tradecraft Roundtable, hosted by the USGIF Tradecraft Subcommittee. During lunch, representatives from lthe community will guide an hour-long conversation about the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and its relation to our National Security and Homeland Security missions. 

How well are we, as a community, meeting the technical, procedural, and educational needs of the Defense and Intelligence communities?

This question is the focus of the Tradecraft Roundtable discussion on Thursday, May 15, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. USGIF released a call for papers from the government, industry, and academia and selected five authors to discuss the arguments raised in their papers. Join us as we discuss the current challenges and potential solutions to better support our community. Panelists for the event are:

Mr. Jack O'Connor, Officer for the Persian Gulf, National Geospatail-Intelligence Agency
Geospatial intelligence managers have traditionally expected to teach new analysts certain skills and content. What is new are the skill sets that the changes in geospatial intelligence now require both hard (data-based) and soft (human) skills.

Mr. James P. Dolan, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Overwatch Geospatial Systems 
The increasing importance of full-motion imagery as a geospatial data source has significantly impacted the traditional imagery analysis tradecraft. The exploitation of full-motion video precipitates a number of tradecraft-related challenges that will be discussed and to which solutions are proposed.

Ms. Carol Robert, Director, Geospatial Analysis, BAE Systems
Though the community has made great strides in better meeting the needs of the Defense and Intelligence Communities, we still lack the means to dully exploit one of the most rapidly expanding sources of geospatial intelligence: commercial imagery.

Prof. Anthony Stefanidis, Director, Geospatial Intelligence Graduate Certification Program, George Mason University
Capturing this diverse knowledge of advances in geospatial analysis, digital image processing, databases, sensor networks, and natural language processing, among others, into a single educational program and designing effective educational programs for our tradecraft is a major challenge.

Carl Steukerjuergen, Director, eGEOINT Management Office, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
If successful, both in delivery and adoption, the movement to a true, net-centric enterprise it will fundamentally change the way the DoD, IC, and the contractor base does business, bringing into question, how well are we preparing for web-centric GEOINT?




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