Each year, the GEOINT Symposium brings together the people who make geospatial intelligence possible — the analysts, engineers, mission commanders, innovators and policy leaders who collectively ensure that decision-makers have the understanding of our world they need when they need it. This year in Aurora, Colorado, more than 4,000 of them will gather at what has become the essential event for our enterprise. And I want to be direct about something: The timing has never felt more consequential.

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Ronda Schrenk is the CEO of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation.