The General Services Administration is looking for potential sources of drone and artificial intelligence capabilities to support the Joint AI Center’s humanitarian assistance and disaster relief technology development initiative.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 19, 2019 — ECS received the Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency designation from Amazon Web Services for demonstrating technical efforts to help law enforcement agencies and other organizations implement cloud-based tools, ExecutiveGov reported Dec. 5.

Amazon Web Services has granted BAE Systems, ECS and Maxar Technologies an AWS Competency designation that recognizes a company's ability to support emergency preparedness, response and recovery missions with the use of cloud-based tools or services.

Teams comprised of Lockheed Martin and NVIDIA as well as Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center have launched efforts to use AI to help improve disaster response.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a notice to justify a sole-source award to Dun and Bradstreet for analysis of the economic impacts of disasters.

Cal Shintani, former principal at StrateGrowth Consulting, has joined analytics software firm SAS as head of government strategic alliances, G2Xchange ETC reported Monday.

Cubic’s mission solutions business has deployed new satellite communication antennas and ruggedized connectivity platforms to support nonprofit Help.NGO’s disaster response missions.

Dewberry has secured a contract to carry out pre-operations planning efforts and gather information that will help the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Direct Housing Assessment Team transport and incorporate manufactured housing units in disaster areas.

Lockheed Martin has commenced the construction of a new long-range fires production facility that would extend the firm's existing site in Camden, Ark.

The Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit has launched a challenge machine learning professionals to create  algorithms to automate the process of assessing post-disaster structural damages. DIU said Monday the xView2 Challenge seeks computer vision tools that can help accelerate satellite- or aerial-based analyses of damage to buildings.

AT&T and the Kansas 911 Coordinating Council have partnered to implement a cloud-based situational awareness tool that includes RapidDeploy’s dispatch system.

Axon has launched a charity initiative, the Axon Aid program, which seeks to help cities in the event of natural disasters by using its drone technology to provide situational awareness to government officials.