Mark Meade, senior vice president at Quantum Spatial, has been named to the National Geospatial Advisory Committee where he will contribute advisory work for three years.

Quantum Spatial and a joint venture between Woolpert and environmental sustainability firm Black & Veatch have won spots on a $49M contract to help the U.S. Army conduct mapping and surveying activities.

Quantum Spatial has landed a five-year, $12.5 million contract to help the U.S. Army  design and engineer photogrammetric surveying and mapping systems. The Defense Department said Friday the Army Corps of Engineers received 25 bids for the contract via the internet and will determine funds and work location based on each order. …

Five public and private sector veterans have been appointed to the strategic advisory board at Boulder, Colo.-based quantum technology developer ColdQuanta. Donald Kerr, former principal deputy director of national intelligence and current chairman of Mitre's board of trustees, will lead ColdQuanta's newly established board, the company said Tuesday.

NV5 Global’s Quantum Spatial company has secured a five-year, $40M contract to provide shoreline mapping support services in assistance to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Geodetic Survey effort.

Five firms have received individual contracts worth $46.5M combined to provide geospatial tasks and support services for shared situational awareness and decision making at various U.S. Air Force bases.

Dewberry will lead an industry team to complete a mapping project in Florida using airborne light detection and ranging technology under a potential $20M contract from the U.S. Geological Survey. The company said Wednesday it will collaborate with seven industry partners to collect lidar, survey the ground and prepare digital …

A new Transparency Market Research report forecasts the LIDAR market to reach $605.5 million by 2020 from $225 million in 2013 and be driven by growing demand for three-dimensional imagery from government, commercial and consumer clients. The report indicates that the transmission lines segment is poised to achieve “robust growth in …

D-Wave Systems has established a new subsidiary that will work to provide quantum computer systems to U.S. government agencies and has appointed executives that will serve on the subsidiary’s independent board. The company said Tuesday Jeffrey Harris, chairman of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation and former president of special programs at Lockheed …

John Sanders, former chief technology officer and assistant administrator for the Office of Security Capabilities at the Transportation Security Administration, has joined the board of directors of OGSystems. During his tenure at TSA, he led the development, assessment, implementation and maintenance of transportation security systems, OGSystems said Monday. The co-founder …