August 21, 2014
LONGMONT, Colo., Aug. 13, 20140—DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions, today announced the successful launch of WorldView-3, the company's sixth and most advanced super-spectral, high-resolution commercial satellite. The satellite launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. "The successful
August 21, 2014
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 19, 2014—East View Geospatial (EVG), a leading provider of authoritative maps and geospatial data products from around the world, was the recipient of DigitalGlobe's 2013-2014 Best Deal of the Year Award. DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services and a long-time partner of EVG. Our talented sales
August 21, 2014
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 18, 2014—Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its RT Logic subsidiary has been selected by Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to demonstrate a ground breaking Common Data Link (CDL) waveform intended for use on Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS). In operation since 1949,
August 21, 2014
USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT, At Sea, Aug. 18, 2014—Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the U.S. Navy offered a glimpse of the future of carrier aviation on Aug. 17 by conducting a series of cooperative flights from the aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), using an X-47B Unmanned Air System (UCAS) and an F/A-18 Hornet. The
August 21, 2014
Aug. 13, 2014—At the recent OGC meetings in Geneva, members of the OGC formed an OGC Big Data Domain Working Group. This OGC domain group provides an open forum for discussions and standards recommendations for Big Data interoperability, access, and analytics related to geospatial information. To this end, the open forum will encourage collaborative development
August 21, 2014
TORONTO, Aug. 13, 2014—Optech is pleased to announce the commissioning of a second high-precision Optech airborne sensor for PT. Karvak Nusa Geomatika this week in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Optech Orion M sensor joins the Optech Gemini that PT. Karvak has been deploying in Indonesia for the past two years. According to Mr. Sofan Prihadi, Technical
August 14, 2014
Farnborough, United Kingdom, Aug. 13, 2014—Airbus Airbus Defence and Space has been contracted to provide a sophisticated mapping and monitoring service for the UK Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) new Electronic Monitoring programme, supporting the UK government’s objective to reduce re-offending rates and better protect the public by monitoring the movement of offenders released under licence.
August 14, 2014
Huntsville, Ala., Aug. 12, 2014—Atlantic, a mapping company specializing in remote sensing, surveying and consulting services, was recently awarded a $9 million Army contract for work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District. The work will cover engineering grade surveying and mapping of shallow water habitat, floodplain changes and vegetation cover at various
August 14, 2014
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2014—The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration today announced that the Griffiss International Airport unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test site in Rome, N.Y., is ready to conduct research vital to integrating UAS into the national airspace system (NAS). The site is the fifth of six test sites to become operational. In
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