HERNDON, Va. - Radiant Solutions, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE and TSX: MAXR), has been selected by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to become a prime contractor for its Janus Geography...
Continental Mapping Consultants Awarded $570M in Prime Contracts for Global Geomatics Elevation and Aeronautical Feature Mapping for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
(Sun Prairie, WI)—June, 2018 — Continental Mapping Consultants, Inc. received award of two 10-year prime contracts with a total value of $570M with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for global geomatics elevation and aeronautical feature mapping. NGA, a...
University of Redlands and Esri Partner to Shape Future ‘Spatial Transformers’
REDLANDS, Calif.-Â The global use of geographic information systems (GIS)/location intelligence is expected to double by 2023, becoming a $10 billion industry. To maximize the understanding and effectiveness of this technology in the private sector, the University of...
YellowScan, UAV LiDAR Specialist, Opens YellowScan Inc. in Salt Lake City
YellowScan, designer, developer and producer of UAV LiDAR solutions for professional applications, continues to expand its presence in the United States with the opening of a new office located at 150 S. State St. Suite 100 Salt Lake City, UT 84111, USA. In addition...
Airbus and Planet Join Forces to Bring New Geospatial Products to Market
Toulouse – Airbus and Planet have entered into a partnership to facilitate access to each other’s data and the co-development of new geospatial solutions, by establishing a framework agreement to explore opportunities for joint cooperation in new and existing...
DroneDeploy Raises $25M of Series C Funding to Bring Drones to Every Job Site
SAN FRANCISCO - DroneDeploy today announced that they have raised $25 million in series C funding. DroneDeploy is the largest cloud-based drone data platform with a community of 30,000 users having mapped 30 million acres in 180 countries on 400,000 job sites. The...
Boeing HorizonX Ventures Invests in On-Demand Urban Aerial Delivery Startup Matternet
CHICAGO - Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced its investment in Matternet, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup pioneering safe, on-demand unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery operations in urban environments. Matternet's advanced logistics platform – combined with...
Digamma.ai and the U.S. Geological Survey Announce Machine Learning Research Partnership
SARATOGA, Calif. -Â Digamma.ai is proud to announce a partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey to apply state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms towards the study of landslides and other natural hazards. "The purpose of this project is to produce algorithms...
Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne to Join Spaceflight's Growing Portfolio of Launch Vehicles for Small Satellite Rideshare
SEATTLE & LONG BEACH, Calif.- Spaceflight, the company reinventing the model for launching small satellites into space, and Virgin Orbit today announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a mission to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in 2019. Virgin...
Garmin Selects KVH to Provide Marine Satellite TV Antenna Systems to Boaters Worldwide
OLATHE, Kan. and MIDDLETOWN, R.I. - Garmin® International, Inc. a unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq:GRMN), and KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq:KVHI), announced an arrangement to offer two marine satellite TV antenna systems made by KVH as part of a Garmin marine network...