GEOINT 2026 | Ryan Burley & Simone Giannecchini - GeoSolutions

Proprietary software environments are no longer the default answer for modern mission management. As federal entities aggressively look to build agile, cloud-native frameworks, open-source geospatial technologies are taking center stage. At the GEOINT 2026 Symposium in Denver, Project Geospatial caught up with Ryan Burley and Simone Giannecchini of GeoSolutions to discuss the massive shift towards unclassified and open IT architectures.

In this blog post, we look at the engineering discipline required to back open-source web-mapping frameworks with true enterprise-grade reliability. Simone and Ryan break down how GeoSolutions maintains core upstream code repositories for world-class platforms like GeoServer, GeoNode, and MapStore. Explore how their customized deployment architectures allow defense networks to bypass restrictive vendor lock-in, streamline OGC-compliant data sharing across international coalitions, and easily scale high-frequency cloud pipelines without skyrocketing licensing fees.