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Lenczowski Given Lifetime Achievement Award
USGIF NAMES ROBERTA “BOBBI” LENCZOWSKI AS THE
2013 ARTHUR C. LUNDAHL — THOMAS C. FINNIE
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RECIPIENT
O
n Thursday, April 17, 2014, in Tampa, Florida, the
United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
(USGIF) announced Roberta “Bobbi” Lenczowski as
the recipient of the USGIF Arthur C. Lundahl–Thomas
C. Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award. She received
her award during the GEOINT 2013* Symposium
general session. Lenczowski is the 10th and first female
recipient of the award.
“Any lifetime achievement award evokes reflections, and
there are many upfront and background facilitators to thank
for their support,” said Lenczowski. “Such an important
award could simply be a memorable way to conclude decades
of endeavor. However, for me, this award is a reminder that
we must continue to pay it forward as mentors and advocates,
following the example of both Art Lundahl and Tom Finnie.”
Lenczowski is an independent geospatial information-
intelligence consultant who spent 28 years in the public
sector. She retired in 2005 from the National Geospatial-
Intelligence Agency (NGA), where she finished her NGA
career as executive director of NGA Campus West in St.
Louis. During her tenure in Washington, D.C., Lenczowski
served three years as NGA’s technical executive, and was
also director of operations with the National Imagery
and Mapping Agency (NIMA) for more than five years.
She also served as president of the American Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Currently, Lenczowski
is serving her second appointment representing NGA on the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advisory
Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing. Previously,
she represented NGA on the Department of the Interior’s
National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive
Advisory Committee, and the Security Affairs Support
Association.
Lenczowski also had an influential career as an integral
part of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing (ASPRS) Executive Board. During the recent ASPRS
2014 Annual Conference, Lenczowski completed her term as
Immediate Past President, ending four years as an officer of
the Society. During her 2012-13 year as President, she led
a task force working on the branding of ASPRS as well as
providing direction in innumerable other areas.
Lenczowski has been especially supportive of the Society’s
Sustaining Members Council, Student Advisory Council
and Young Professionals Council; always seeking ways
to meet the demands of these bodies, which represent the
constituencies that undergird the future of the Society.
Lenczowski, along with her husband Jerry Lenczowski,
has been heavily involved, for many years, in the ASPRS St.
Louis Region, culminating in the expediting of the merger of
this region with its neighbor, Central Region, to form a new,
vibrant Society entity in the mid-west. Lenczowski has been
a mainstay of ASPRS for a generation and the Officers, Board
of Directors and members have been especially grateful
for her expertise, eloquence and calm as the Society has
weathered a turbulent 2013 and moves ahead with initiatives
to grow.
The Lundahl-Finnie award recipient is nominated and
voted on by the USGIF Board of Directors. Board members
chose Lenczowski for inspiring the Global Geospatial
Integrated Data Environment concept, which ultimately
led to the standup of the Global Geospatial Integrated
Product Team and creation of NIMA Production Cells—the
first use of commercial-off-the-shelf workstations for the
GEOINT mission. This accomplishment led to the Integrated
Exploitation Capability. USGIF’s Board of Directors said
Lenczowski continues to show dedication to the GEOINT
Community and the furtherance of research and development
around geospatial data management.
