HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The first ever GEOINT Community Career Fair, produced by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), attracted about 500 attendees to the Hyatt Regency Reston on Thursday, July 15.

Attendees were provided with the unique opportunity throughout the day to meet with prospective employers looking to fill a variety of open positions across the spectrum of Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Communities.

“Unlike many other fields, the geospatial intelligence industry continues to rapidly expand,” said USGIF President Keith Masback. “In one recent survey of our 157 member organizations, there were well over 1,000 job openings related to the GEOINT profession. The GEOINT Community Career Fair provided the perfect opportunity to match skilled professionals with the employers that need them.”

Though many of the positions advertised by the almost 40 companies required U.S. citizenship and an active security clearance, recent college graduates and those without clearances also could find openings without this requirement making the GEOINT Community Career Fair a success for all levels and types of job seekers.

Organizations participating in USGIF’s career fair included the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, GeoEye, ESRI, U.S. Army Geospatial Center, TASC, ManTech International, SAIC, Northrop Grumman, MITRE, Booz Allen Hamilton, Raytheon, Harris, Everest Technology Solutions, NJVC, General Dynamics, Woolpert, Innovative Analytics and Training, DigitalGlobe, BAE Systems, Pixia, Ball Aerospace and Technologies, Concurrent Technologies, Serco Americas, L-3 Communications, Riverside Research Institute, McClendon, NW Systems, American Systems, AirScan, SRA International, Solers, Preferred Systems Solutions, Sarnoff and Lockheed Martin.

USGIF is a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to promoting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and developing a stronger GEOINT Community with government, industry, academia, professional organizations and individuals who apply geospatial intelligence to address national security challenges. For more information, please visit www.USGIF.org.

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United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
Jordan Fuhr
Director of Marketing and Strategic Communications
703-793-0109 x101
jordan.fuhr@usgif.org

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USGIF's 2010 GEOINT Community Career Fair (Photo: Business Wire)