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  • Planet to Provide NGA Global Nanosatellite Imagery Access; Robert Cardillo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Planet to Provide NGA Global Nanosatellite Imagery Access; Robert Cardillo Comments

    Commercial imagery provider Planet has been awarded a $20 million introductory contract to supply small satellite imagery of Earth’s landmass to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGA will have access to a global imagery collection called the Planet Feed every 15 days and share the feed with the National System for Geospatial Intelligence and civil federal community, the agency said […] More

  • OGSystems, Planet Forge Strategic Alliance to Develop Location-Based Intelligence Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems, Planet Forge Strategic Alliance to Develop Location-Based Intelligence Platform

    OGSystems will team with Planet to build a location-based intelligence platform that combines commercial remote sensing, big data and cognitive analytics. The companies said Monday the BlueGlass platform will work to offer real-time insights delivered through situational awareness, anomaly alerting and reporting on activities that could lead to potential risks to user operations. “OGSystems’ vision for BlueGlass was born out of our […] More

  • CCRi to Develop Analytics-Based GEOINT Data Evaluation Tool Under NGA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CCRi to Develop Analytics-Based GEOINT Data Evaluation Tool Under NGA Contract

    Commonwealth Computer Research Inc. has received a $499,767 contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to develop a data analytics-based platform designed to evaluate and identify GEOINT data that has potential value to users. NGA awarded the contract under the first topic of a broad agency announcement for the agency’s Boosting Innovative GEOINT program, NGA said Wednesday. CCRi will […] More

  • OGSystems Hires Former NGA Source Operations Director John Goolgasian - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems Hires Former NGA Source Operations Director John Goolgasian

    John Goolgasian, former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency source operations and management director, has joined OGSystems as the company aims to further its geospatial analytics offerings. Goolgasian, who was also director of the Foundation GEOINT Group in Source, will serve as an associate partner at OGSystems, the company said Tuesday. “John has had a stellar career with the government and has […] More

  • Esri, Harris Form Federal GEOINT Data Production Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri, Harris Form Federal GEOINT Data Production Partnership

    Esri has partnered with Harris Corp. to develop new methods for the production of geospatial intelligence data within a web-based geographic information system in an effort to help federal agencies update their processes and outcomes. The companies seek to help agencies build new applications and tools through digital transformation initiatives and location-based technology, Esri said Tuesday. Esri’s WebGIS is a network designed to […] More

  • Engility Names Optensity as Winner of GEOINT App Development Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Names Optensity as Winner of GEOINT App Development Challenge

    Engility has awarded a $25,000 prize to Optensity as the winner of the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program Grand Challenge 2016 for work on an application built to alert users on location-based threats and identifications of safe locations. Engility said Wednesday it worked with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to create the IGAPP challenge in an effort to connect commercial vendors with government agencies that are […] More

  • US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Unveils New Certification Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Unveils New Certification Program

    The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation has introduced a new certification program for U.S. and international GEOINT professionals across industry, military, academia and government. USGIF officially unveiled the the Universal GEOINT Certification Program during the general session at its GEOINT 2016 Symposium, USGIF said Monday. The certification program requires three exams for applicants to obtain the GIS […] More

  • Esri to Exhibit ArcGIS-Based Geospatial Tools; John Day Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri to Exhibit ArcGIS-Based Geospatial Tools; John Day Comments

    Esri is scheduled to showcase the company’s geospatial technology offerings at the GEOINT Symposium from May 15 to 18 and conduct a free training session during the event slated to take place in Orlando, Florida. Esri staff will discuss on-site how ArcGIS platform-based geospatial technologies provide intelligence on defense and national security to customers, Esri said Tuesday. […] More

  • NGA Eyes Cloud Transition Contract Award to Ball Aerospace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Eyes Cloud Transition Contract Award to Ball Aerospace

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to award Ball Aerospace & Technologies a one-year, sole-source contract to provide design and development support for NGA’s Accelerated Cloud Transition program. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday the contract covers data tagging support for the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise’s GovCloud platform and commercial cloud services. Contract […] More

  • Tony Frazier: New DigitalGlobe Community to Utilize Crowdsourced GEOINT for Nat'l Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: New DigitalGlobe Community to Utilize Crowdsourced GEOINT for Nat’l Security

    Tony Frazier, senior vice president for government solutions at DigitalGlobe, has outlined his views on the impact of crowdsourcing on innovation and learning in the geospatial intelligence sector. Frazier wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday that the company’s Tomnod community and USGIF GEOINT Hackathon competition are indicative of crowdsourcing’s disruptive role in the market. He noted that Tomnod […] More

  • Shana Simmons: Engility Seeks to Help NGA Build 'One-Stop' GEOINT Shop - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shana Simmons: Engility Seeks to Help NGA Build ‘One-Stop’ GEOINT Shop

    Engility is acting as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s broker for the development and approval of mobile applications as NGA pushes to make geospatial data more widely available, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Jason Miller writes Engility’s contract – awarded to its TASC subsidiary in September 2014 — is part of the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program that seeks t0 make a “one-stop shop” for GEOINT applications that utilize […] More

  • NGA to Tackle NextGen Initiative, GEOINT Data Collection at Tech Solution Discovery Day - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA to Tackle NextGen Initiative, GEOINT Data Collection at Tech Solution Discovery Day

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will hold an event at its campus in Springfield, Virginia, on Sept. 14 to discuss the agency’s Next Generation initiative with industry and overview NGA’s technology and services requirements. NGA said in a notice posted Aug. 7 on FedBizOpps that the NGA Operations Technology Solution Discovery Day also intends to promote collaborations […] More