Roger Mason -- president of Peraton's space, intelligence and cyber sector and four-time Wash100 Award recipient -- has been appointed interim chairman of the board of directors at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation.

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Tony Frazier, executive vice president for global field operations at Maxar Technologies and a 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, said the company seeks to continue applying emerging technology to support customer missions while expanding its team of professionals.

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DigitalGlobe has introduced a set of geospatial data and satellite imagery services designed to help security agencies and international governments improve the safety of athletes and audience for this year’s Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Jaineiro, Brazil. The Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympic Security Package includes the Basemap+Daily subscription service, Human Landscape database and Vricon‘s digital service […] More

The new joint venture between DigitalGlobe and Saab seeks to accelerate the companies’ existing work toward delivering a 3-D model of Earth using their combined technologies and partner on distribution efforts, Reuters reported Tuesday. Andrea Shalal writes that the Vricon joint venture will integrate 3-D computer processing and satellite imaging technologies in efforts to meet the needs of […] More

DigitalGlobe and Saab have created a joint venture to offer three-dimensional Earth imagery and elevation data products to commercial and government organizations. The companies said Tuesday that Vricon aims to integrate a Saab-made 3D imaging technology and DigitalGlobe’s database of satellite images to develop new geospatial products. The business will initially focus on producing topographic […] More