The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation was created in January 2004 by a group of tradecraft professionals recognizing the need for a forum where they could work together——outside their own organizational and corporate interests——toward a mutual goal of improving national and homeland security.
The idea for the Foundation started with an event, Geo-Intel 2003, which drew enough interest to solidify the group’s notion that the tradecraft community needed a forum.
Organizations can join USGIF at different tiers of partnership: strategic, premier, associate, sustaining, academic, and small business.
[2] In his book Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing, Shorrock recounts several notable events at GEOINT Symposiums.
Other Undersecretaries of Defense for Intelligence have spoken at the Symposium, including Michael G. Vickers in 2011 and 2012, Marcel Lettre in 2015 and 2016, Joseph D. Kernan in 2018, and Ronald Moultrie in 2022.
The GEOINT stage has drawn additional contributors, among them Donald Kerr, General James Cartwright, Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, Dr. Christopher K. Tucker, retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, Charles E. Allen, Ambassador Dennis Richardson, Anthony Tether, Al Munson,[10] Bran Ferren, Gen. Michael Hayden, Suzette Kimball, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, Gen. Charles Q.
This event was held each spring in the D.C. metro area to allow members of US Congress and other government employees convenient access to the latest developments and solutions in geospatial technology.
Tech Days was produced in cooperation with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which hosted a classified technology component as part of the event.
The Chairman’s Events are open only to Strategic Partner Members, USGIF Board of Directors, and select invited guests.