Name: Episode 16: Mapmaking behind the Iron Curtain by Geointeresting
Duration: 24 min 19 s
Description: Alex Kent, Ph.D., professor of cartography and geographic information at Canterbury Christ Church University, and John Davies, a lifelong map lover and collector, recently sat down with NGA’s Geointeresting podcast team to talk about Cold War-era Soviet mapmaking and its impact on modern-day cartography.

Mark Anderson is the founder and publisher of the Strategic News Service newsletter, long a must-read for industry leaders and venture capitalists, and founder, chair and host of Future in Review, an annual gathering for tech leaders, investors, and policymakers The Economist called “the best technology conference in the world.”

Episode 1: Mark Anderson, founder & publisher of the Strategic News Service newsletter

Ben Balter is the Government Evangelist at GitHub — the world’s largest software development network — where he leads the efforts to encourage adoption of open source philosophies, making all levels of government better, one repository at a time.

Episode 2: Ben Balter, GitHub's government evangelist

Chris Rasmussen drove the initiative that made NGA the first intelligence agency to open source software on GitHub and place apps into iTunes and Google Play. He is also is one of the primary architects behind the Unclassified GEOINT Pathfinder initiative, which aims to transform GEOINT into a mostly open source intelligence discipline.

Episode 3: Chris Rasmussen, NGA's public open source software development lead

Mr. Justin Poole is the Director of NGA’s Xperience Directorate, where he is charged with enhancing the user’s experience through online, on-demand GEOINT services that provide access to content, expertise, and applications. 

Dr. Carter Christopher is currently part of the Core Leadership Team of the GEOINT Services Initiative – responsible for developing and executing the agency’s GEOINT Services Strategy. 

Episode 4: Justin Poole & Carter Christopher on NGA user experience & GEOINT Services

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s “Geointeresting” podcast welcomed Ms. Cleo Loi and Professor Steven Tingay to discuss the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) — a radio telescope located in the Western Australian desert — and Loi’s discovery of the existence of tubular plasma structures in the inner layers of the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth.

Professor Tingay is the director of the MWA project and Professor of Radio Astronomy at Curtin University in Australia. Loi is a PhD student in astrophysics at the University of Sydney. Tingay and Loi visted NGA's campus in Springfield, Virginia to speak with employees about the MWA and Loi's discovery. 

To learn more about Loi’s discovery, read the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics press release (http://caastro.org/news/2015-tubes) and Dr. Tara Murphy’s article on The Conversation (http://tinyurl.com/pknq3e2). For more about the MWA, visit http://www.mwatelescope.org/.


Episode 5: Cleo Loi & Steven Tingay on plasma tubes and the Murchison Widefield Array

Geointeresting welcomes Sue Shumate, NGA's talent acquisition lead, to help demystify the intelligence community's recruiting process and talk about some of the open jobs at NGA.

Episode 6: Sue Shumate, NGA talent acquisition lead

Geointeresting talks to Jack O'Connor, author of NPIC: Seeing the Secrets and Growing the Leaders. Listen to learn about the National Photographic Interpretation Center culture, the day-to-day lives of imagery analysts, and about the leaders who helped mold the NGA legacy organization and whose leadership values are still followed, today.

Episode 8: Jack O'Connor, author of "NPIC: Seeing the Secrets and Growing the Leaders"

Geointeresting talks to former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden. In this podcast, Gen. Hayden  discusses innovation, leadership and transparency in the intelligence community.

Episode 10: Former director of the CIA and NSA, Michael V. Hayden

Geointeresting talks with Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook about his role as the spokesman for the Department of Defense. Cook was previously a correspondent for Bloomberg Television, where he covered Congress, the White House , the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve.  Now for the Department of Defense he conducts daily press conferences and frequently uses information from NGA to keep the public informed.

Episode 9: Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook

Alex Kent, Ph.D., professor of cartography and geographic information at Canterbury Christ Church University, and John Davies, a lifelong map lover and collector, recently sat down with NGA’s Geointeresting podcast team to talk about Cold War-era Soviet mapmaking and its impact on modern-day cartography.

Episode 16: Mapmaking behind the Iron Curtain

In the latest Geointeresting podcast we sat down with Dr. Stacey Dixon, deputy director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.  She talks to us about her efforts to advance women in science, technology, mathematics and engineering; the future of technology in the intelligence community; and what she believes are characteristics of a great leader. 

Bonus! By listening to this podcast you will also learn why many IARPA research projects reference Tolkien!

Episode 24: Dr. Stacey Dixon, IARPA deputy director

Geointeresting is the official podcast of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Geointeresting features conversations with innovators, explorers and pathfinders. 

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency delivers world-class geospatial intelligence, or GEOINT, that provides a decisive advantage to warfighters, policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responders. Both an intelligence agency and combat support agency, NGA fulfills the president’s national security priorities in partnership with the intelligence community and the Department of Defense.

Transcriptions of Geointeresting can be found at https://www.nga.mil/MediaRoom/Pages/Geointeresting-Podcast.aspx.

Episode 16: Mapmaking behind the Iron Curtain

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