The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has unveiled a geospatial application developed by DigitalGlobe to help the public store and process raster data. The MapReduce Geo toolkit is designed for users to search, download, preprocess and format data for analysis using a cloud-based architecture, DigitalGlobe said Tuesday. “The project demonstrates how public-private partnerships can create innovative solutions,” […] More

Tony Frazier serves as senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe, where he oversees the company’s business with the U.S. government and leads product strategy, business development and analytic services delivery functions. He previously led DigitalGlobe’s Insight line of business, which helps organizations apply imagery and other geospatial analysis tools to make decisions. He joined DigitalGlobe as a result of […] More

Activity in the Wash100 Award popular vote contest is abuzz this week as we enter the second half of the race. Some executives have regained the leads they had in the early going, while other fresher faces are steadily making their way up the top 30. It’s becoming a more exciting race by the day, only […] More

Baird’s fifth annual Government & Defense Conference hosted government officials and industry representatives from the federal sector to discuss current trends and future business strategies and opportunities in the government contracting industry. On Thursday, previous Wash100 Award recipients John Mengucci of CACI International, Jonathan Moneymaker of BlueHalo, Byron Bright of KBR and Tony Frazier of […] More

Michael McCord, comptroller of the Department of Defense; John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI; Byron Bright, president of government solutions at KBR; and Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of public sector Earth intelligence at Maxar Technologies, are some of the government and industry leaders set to participate in Baird‘s Government & […] More

Executive Mosaic, a leadership media and events company in the government contracting space, has named the winners of the 2021 Wash100 Award that seeks to highlight the contributions and efforts of the 100 private and public sector leaders in leading government contracting industry's growth and innovation. "We are thrilled to honor the winners of the 2021 Wash100 Award," said Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic. “This is our eighth consecutive year recognizing the outstanding achievements of the most significant GovCon and federal executives in 2020 as well as the vision and success they will continue to bring in 2021 and beyond."

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Chris Shank, vice president for civil and national security space at Maxar Technologies, said the company is preparing for the future of space exploration and Earth observation imagery to assist government customers with their missions.

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Amazon Web Services has granted BAE Systems, ECS and Maxar Technologies an AWS Competency designation that recognizes a company's ability to support emergency preparedness, response and recovery missions with the use of cloud-based tools or services.

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New management and a rebranding initiative are two signs of change for Maxar in 2019, but the company’s focus on growth and delivering innovative technology remains the same. Radiant Solutions, SSL and DigitalGlobe were consolidated into Maxar. The company is focused on two strategic market segments, earth intelligence and space solutions.

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Dan Jablonsky, president and CEO of Maxar Technologies, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the company merged the operations of Radiant Solutions, SSL and DigitalGlobe as part of a restructuring effort aimed to provide leaders with direct authority and facilitate innovation and service delivery.

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DigitalGlobe held a “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” on April 28 to let employees’ children participate in satellite imagery and mapping exercises and introduce them to the company’s technological offerings. The space imagery and geospatial data provider said Monday it engaged the children in a discussion on DigitalGlobe’s satellite constellation in efforts to inspire them to take a science, technology, […] More