# United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation **Entity class:** Nonprofit educational foundation **Aliases:** USGIF ## Definition The **United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation** is a nonprofit educational foundation supporting the geospatial-intelligence community through convening, education, professional development, accreditation, and community-building. ## Relationships - **flagship event:** [[wiki/GEOINT Symposium|GEOINT Symposium]]. - **mission community:** [[wiki/GEOINT|GEOINT]] and [[wiki/National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency|National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]]. - **collection:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [USGIF](https://usgif.org/) ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Thanks to automation, that rate of cartographic accomplishment has never been matched." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/Automation Has Set a New Pace for Cartography by Frank Whitworth|Automation Has Set a New Pace for Cartography by Frank Whitworth]] > "But through the new map production automation tools that NGA developed, we can now deliver a safe, usable, and readable map … in 20 minutes." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/A Safe Usable Map Can Be Delivered in Twenty Minutes by Frank Whitworth|A Safe Usable Map Can Be Delivered in Twenty Minutes by Frank Whitworth]] > "We embrace the speed and scale AI brings to our tradecraft – and so do our warfighters and readership." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/Intelligence Tradecraft Should Embrace AI Speed and Scale by Frank Whitworth|Intelligence Tradecraft Should Embrace AI Speed and Scale by Frank Whitworth]] > "NGA Maven has decreased targeting workflow timelines by a substantial amount, with one warfighting element’s targeting cell seeing intelligence-operations timelines drop from hours to minutes from sensing to target engagement during a recent exercise." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/Maven Can Cut Targeting Timelines From Hours to Minutes by Frank Whitworth|Maven Can Cut Targeting Timelines From Hours to Minutes by Frank Whitworth]] > "And to add to that, the latency of our models – our time lags in running inference specifically – has improved 80-percent in the year since NGA Maven became a program of record." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/Model Inference Latency Improved Eighty Percent by Frank Whitworth|Model Inference Latency Improved Eighty Percent by Frank Whitworth]] > "At NGA, we’re leveraging AI to help sift through the millions of detects we get a day and are also starting to train the best industry models on the corpus of NGA reporting." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/AI Can Sift Millions of Detections a Day by Frank Whitworth|AI Can Sift Millions of Detections a Day by Frank Whitworth]] > "As always, we want to let the computers do their thing, so the humans can be better at ours." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/Computers Should Free Humans for Human Work by Frank Whitworth|Computers Should Free Humans for Human Work by Frank Whitworth]] > "In our business, trustworthiness and reliability are essential for accurate and consistent outputs – and for minimizing the risk of catastrophic errors in high-risk environments." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/Trustworthy AI Is Essential in High-Risk Environments by Frank Whitworth|Trustworthy AI Is Essential in High-Risk Environments by Frank Whitworth]] > "We accredit GEOINT AI models to enable decentralized innovation – and we will work hard to make the process swift and repeatable…not like an onerous authority-to-operate." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/GEOINT AI Models Should Be Accredited for Decentralized Innovation by Frank Whitworth|GEOINT AI Models Should Be Accredited for Decentralized Innovation by Frank Whitworth]] > "That’s what enables the automated sifting, sorting, translating, comprehending and sensemaking of billions of words to make inferences about image and text data." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/Automated Systems Can Make Sense of Billions of Words by Frank Whitworth|Automated Systems Can Make Sense of Billions of Words by Frank Whitworth]] > "Then the A2SoN auto-processes text and imagery sources to accurately identify features and events – which has led to 90 percent shorter data prep times." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/Automated Text and Imagery Processing Cut Data Preparation by Ninety Percent by Frank Whitworth|Automated Text and Imagery Processing Cut Data Preparation by Ninety Percent by Frank Whitworth]] > "Multimodal foundation models are already enhancing our speed and confidence – stay tuned for more progress." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/Multimodal Foundation Models Are Increasing Speed and Confidence by Frank Whitworth|Multimodal Foundation Models Are Increasing Speed and Confidence by Frank Whitworth]] > "NGA is demonstrating that AI and automation tools are not just here to help, they’re here to stay, and are a part of how we will live and breathe, as we continue to work at pace, to keep our Nation safe, and our freedom close at hand." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/AI and Automation Are Now Part of National Security Work by Frank Whitworth|AI and Automation Are Now Part of National Security Work by Frank Whitworth]] > "And there’s no doubt in my mind that the timing for GEOINT AI is now. It’s the key to building a secure tomorrow … together." > **— Frank Whitworth**, *May 19, 2025, 2025 GEOINT Symposium Keynote* [[reminders/Information/The Time for GEOINT AI Is Now by Frank Whitworth|The Time for GEOINT AI Is Now by Frank Whitworth]]