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  • NASA Event to Highlight Snow-Bound Water Resource Measurement Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Event to Highlight Snow-Bound Water Resource Measurement Project

    NASA plans to hold a media day on Feb. 13 at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado to discuss an agency project that aims to measure the amount of water in snow with remote sensing methods. More than 100 scientists from U.S., Europe and Canada will test various sensors and techniques to optimize snow measurements over different terrains as […] More

  • OGSystems, Narrative Science Partner on New Location-Based Intell Offering; Omar Balkissoon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems, Narrative Science Partner on New Location-Based Intell Offering; Omar Balkissoon Comments

    OGSystems and natural language generation technology provider Narrative Science have teamed up to develop a new location-based intelligence platform offering for enterprise customers. The BlueGlass platform integrates remote sensing, big data and cognitive analytics features to help clients gain situational insights in real time through anomaly alerting and activity reports about potential risks, OGSystems said Wednesday. […] More

  • AeroVironment Unveils Integrated Drone & Data Analytics Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment Unveils Integrated Drone & Data Analytics Platform

    AeroVironment has unveiled an integrated commercial information system comprised of a drone and a cloud-based data analytics platform that will work to generate actionable intelligence in real time. The Quantix drone is designed to combine vertical liftoff and horizontal flight functions as well as “land now” and “return home” command safety features, AeroVironment company said Tuesday. AeroVironment added its Decision Support System uses research and algorithms […] More

  • OGSystems, Prescient to Collaborate on Location-Based Intell Platform Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems, Prescient to Collaborate on Location-Based Intell Platform Devt

    OGSystems has teamed up with Prescient to integrate the latter’s intelligence products and threat alerting services into the former’s BlueGlass location-based intelligence platform. BlueGlass is designed to help users obtain insights in real time through situational awareness, anomaly alerts and incident reports that might pose a threat to user operations, OGSystems said Thursday. The platform comprises remote sensing, big data and […] More

  • OGSystems, TransVoyant Form Predictive Analytics Tech Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems, TransVoyant Form Predictive Analytics Tech Partnership

    TransVoyant and OGSystems have partnered to integrate a predictive analytics tool with OGSystems’ platform that works to help customers gain situational awareness as well as receive anomaly alerts and reports on operational risks. The partnership aims to add TransVoyant’s Precise Predictive Intelligence system to the BlueGlass platform OGSystems designed to generate real-time insights through remote sensing, big data and cognitive analytics, OGSystems said […] More

  • USDA’s Forest Service Seeks Geospatial Professional Support Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USDA’s Forest Service Seeks Geospatial Professional Support Sources

    The Agriculture Department’s Forest Service has started its search for potential industry sources of professional services in the areas of geographic information systems, GPS, cartography, remote sensing and other geospatial activities. The Forest Service said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday the sources sought notice is part of the agency’s market research effort for a potential […] More

  • Sierra Nevada-UN Partnership Targets 2021 Launch of Multicountry Microgravity Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada-UN Partnership Targets 2021 Launch of Multicountry Microgravity Mission

    A partnership between Sierra Nevada Corp. and the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs aims to launch microgravity payloads from UN member states aboard the company-built Dream Chaser spacecraft by 2021. The U.N. said Tuesday the collaborative effort aims to give developing nations an opportunity to build and deploy payloads into orbit and that all member nations will have the chance to propose payloads […] 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

  • NEOS Partners With Lockheed to Develop Sensor for Aerial Natural Resource Detection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NEOS Partners With Lockheed to Develop Sensor for Aerial Natural Resource Detection

    Lockheed Martin and NEOS have teamed up to develop a sensor designed to detect oil, minerals, gas and other natural resources underneath the earth’s surface. Lockheed has started to build a prototype of the Full Tensor Gradiometry Plus remote sensing platform that works to track natural resources from the air through the use of NEOS’ aircraft […] More

  • Sierra Nevada, UN Outer Space Affairs Unit to Develop Space Opportunities for Member States - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada, UN Outer Space Affairs Unit to Develop Space Opportunities for Member States

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has inked a memorandum of agreement with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs to collaborate on the development of space experiment opportunities for U.N. member states. The U.N. said Tuesday UNOOSA and SNC will team up to set up a multicountry space mission opportunity for member states to build and fly payloads for experiments […] More

  • Ball Aerospace, World View Collaborate to Use Balloon Flight Platform for Remote Sensing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace, World View Collaborate to Use Balloon Flight Platform for Remote Sensing

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has entered a partnership with World View to test the latter’s Stratollite above-earth balloon vehicle for remote sensing applications. The collaboration will involve a long-duration Stratollite flight to explore the possible commercial applications of remote sensing, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. Debra Facktor Lepore, Ball Aerospace vice president and general manager of strategic operations, said the partnership also looks […] More

  • NASA Picks 19 Firms for 22 Space Tech Projects; Steve Jurczyk Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks 19 Firms for 22 Space Tech Projects; Steve Jurczyk Comments

    NASA has formed public-private partnerships with 19 companies for 22 research projects under two solicitations that seek to advance the development of new space platforms intended for human and robotic exploration missions. “These awards enable us to continue to foster partnerships with the commercial space sector that not only leverage capabilities to meet NASA’s strategic […] More