Octo Consulting Group has received a five-year, $34 million contract to provide operations, software engineering and support services for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s Agile Web Presence program. The company will develop NGA’s internal and external Internet services and various unclassified and classified networks under the AWP program, Octo said Dec. 1. NGA’s …
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Letitia Long, a former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, has been appointed chairperson of the board of directors at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. INSA said Tuesday Long will succeed John Negroponte, who will move to the role of chairman emeritus of INSA on Jan. 1, 2016 and be responsible …
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DigitalGlobe has said it believes the U.S. government should develop innovation and budget management strategies to ensure continued partnership between commercial satellite services providers and their public-sector customers. In a blog article published Tuesday, the company cited the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s EnhancedView program as one example of how industry can help address the earth …
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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has asked industry to provide information on platforms built to detect insider threats in virtual network environments. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Oct. 13 that it is in search for tools intended to log data on the actions that users and network administrators perform in …
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The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Engility have announced the availability of a Vricon-made application designed to help government users access satellite imagery-derived three-dimensional content. Engility said Monday that Vricon’s Explorer tool is now available on the agency’s GEOINT app store. TASC, a subsidiary of Engility, served as a broker …
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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will extend its usage of DigitalGlobe’s satellite imagery service for at least another year. NGA renewed DigitalGlobe’s Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery platform on Sept. 1 under the EnhancedView contract, DigitalGlobe said Thursday. The Global EGD platform is designed to provide NGA and other government users with at …
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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” …
Read More » 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 …
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DigitalGlobe has partnered with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to launch the Hootenanny open source project in an effort to offer developers software tools for crowdsourced mapping and geospatial big data analytics functions. DigitalGlobe said Monday Hootenanny features the interactive iD Editor interface for editing map features and the OpenStreetMap architecture for integrating geospatial big …
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TASC, an Engility Holdings subsidiary, will exhibit its geospatial intelligence applications technology platform at the four-day U.S. GEOINT Foundation’s 2015 Symposium in Washingto, which starts Monday. Engility said Wednesday TASC designed the Innovative GEOINT App Provider Program for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to help application developers create mapping applications with unclassified geospatial information. …
Read More » Tony Frazier, senior vice president at DigitalGlobe, has said the company recently posted a tool called MrGeo to source code sharing site GitHub, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes DigitalGlobe developed the tool under the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s research and development program. The company also disclosed that it is developing …
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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has launched a new program for commercial application developers to use unclassified geospatial data in efforts to create new mapping applications. NGA said Monday applications developed under the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program will be available for download via the agency’s GEOINT App Store. TASC, a subsidiary of Engility, will manage and operate …
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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded a five-year contract to a subsidiary of Intergraph for geospatial software and services. Intergraph Government Solutions will deliver its ERDAS product line, GeoMedia and cartographic web services to NGA, IGS said Monday. The subsidiary will also perform related software maintenance under the contract. IGS’ …
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Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a go-signal to continue its work on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s unclassified remote hosted desktop pilot project, Defense Systems reported Thursday. Mark Pomerleau writes NGA issued the three-month extension to complete the last two phases of the URHD project after Concurrent Technologies renewed its Federal …
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Letitia Long, formerly director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, has been appointed to Noblis‘ board of trustees as the company works to further its collaboration with the U.S. intelligence community. “Tish will bring fresh insights to our board based on her extensive experience in a community that is so vital to …
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