The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) conducts a multidisciplinary program of basic research in geospatial intelligence topics through grants and fellowships to the nation’s leading investigators at institutions of higher learning. This research provides the fundamental science support for NGA’s basic, applied, and advanced research programs.

USGIF will select presenters from the 2010 NGA Academic Research Program (NARP) Symposium to share their work, collaborate with their peers, and meet government project scientists at GEOINT 2010.

Activity-Based Intelligence is an evolving strategy for developing intelligence using the combined capabilities of persistent surveillance, tailored collection management, multi-INT analytic tradecraft and flexible and discoverable data management.

This workshop will present a conceptual overview of Activity-Based Intelligence, with real-world use cases and technology demonstrations of the concepts in military and civilian applications.

The National Counterterrorism Center has launched the next generation of the Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS) and would like to present WITS NextGen at GEOINT 2010. Available to the public on the Internet, WITS is the US Government’s authoritative database of terrorist attacks compiled exclusively from open source information. With WITS NextGen, users can run reports and queries to retrieve analytic information related to terrorist attacks worldwide.

NCTC will showcase WITS NextGen at GEOINT 2010 by providing a presentation that:
- Demonstrates the new geospatial functions
- Explains the underlying WITS methodology that ensures rigor in the data
- Shows how Government analysts and academics are using WITS in their research
- Shares a WITS promotional video (2-3 minutes)