If there was an emerging theme across the many remarks, interviews and panels at GEOINT 2017, held June 4-7 in San Antonio, Texas, it was a familiar but precarious ideal: partnership across the intelligence community and beyond.
The partnerships also include elements of the U.S. military, such as U.S. Southern Command, whose commander also spoke at the symposium. Adm. Kurt Tidd emphasized partnership in U.S. Special Operations Command missions, highlighting Latin America, where “there\u2019s emerging security challenges impacting U.S. national interests,” including elusive trafficking networks, he said at the GEOINT Symposium on June 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“At SOUTHCOM, we\u2019re embracing operational innovation in several different ways. \u2026 We\u2019re working with NGA to combine geo-enabled, open-source analysis for intelligence on illicit traffickers,” Tidd said. “This new application of existing technology \u2026 makes us more agile and more responsive. It\u2019s affordable and accessible,” in addition to producing unclassified data that can be shared among allies and partners like non-government organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As prime examples of this, Cardillo pointed to partnerships with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Gates Foundation, through which the organizations created a map of Nigeria based on satellite imagery and more than 2,000 on-the-ground neighborhood surveys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Through this partnership, they identified settlements that didn\u2019t exist just a few years ago. So, when Nigeria distributes the measles vaccine next year, they\u2019ll save a billion dollars and countless lives because they won\u2019t use flawed, 10-year-old census data,” Cardillo said. “And it\u2019s all thanks to the unique combination of imagery, automation, human geography and mapping technologies\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and most importantly, strong partnerships.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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