Intermap Technologies has secured a $3.3 million task order modification to provide geospatial three-dimensional infrastructure services to the U.S. government. The company said Monday it will update a digital elevation model to help government users collect, edit and provision elevation and image layers into a high-resolution geospatial database. Intermap will use its proprietary airborne sensor and processing […] More

Elbit Systems has released a tracking system for dismounted soldiers, first responders and special forces to gain situational awareness in places with poor or no access to GPS signal. SmarTrack is built with radio frequency technology that will work to help commanders locate and track force members in GPS-denied indoor, underground or urban areas, Elbit Systems said Thursday. The […] More

Esri has partnered with an Airbus Group business unit to incorporate the latter’s elevation data to Esri’s online maps. Airbus Defence and Space‘s WorldDEM4Ortho elevation data will be added to Esri’s ArcGIS Online Living Atlas of the World to support online end-user applications and app developers who need elevation information, Esri said Monday. Sean Breyer, Esri […] More

DigitalGlobe will introduce a premium monitoring service offering for customers to access current satellite images of worldwide locations from multiple commercial sources to obtain information on changes that occur within clients’ areas of interest. The SecureWatch Sites service is meant to help customers view at least petabytes of imagery data from DigitalGlobe’s satellite constellation as well as SI Imaging Services’ KOMPSAT-3 and KOMPSAT-3a […] More

SES has launched a Boeing-built satellite aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana to deliver internet service to commercial, maritime and government customers. The SES-15 satellite is designed to support inflight connectivity and entertainment service providers such as Global Eagle Entertainment, Gogo and Panasonic Avionics as well as provide live TV coverage on flight routes across U.S., Canada, […] More

Visual Awareness Technologies and Consulting has received a subcontract from CACI International to provide a geospatial database and system engineers in support of the U.S. Special Operations Command. VATC said Wednesday it secured a spot as first-tier subcontractor under CACI’s Special Operations Forces Planning, Rehearsal and Execution Preparation contract worth up to $4.2 million annually. The training platform […] More

Rockwell Collins has been chosen to provide integrated flight displays, communications, navigation, surveillance, networking and flight control systems for KC-46A tankers that Boeing will build for the U.S. Air Force. Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins said Wednesday its Remote Vision System  comprises two- and three-dimensional vision technologies that will work to aid the KC-46A aircraft’s refueling function. RVS is designed to […] More

Jeff Lawrence, a licensed unmanned aerial vehicle pilot and former project manager at Collier Engineering, has joined GEO Jobe to oversee business development of UAV services at the Tennessee-based geographic information system services provider. He holds 30 years of experience in government and commercial project management, planning, geospatial services, data planning and GIS development and administration, GEO Jobe said Jan. 23. Neill Jobe, […] More

DT Research has received a contract to supply the U.S. Army with additional rugged tablet computers to aid training and logistics operations at an Army facility. It represents the third contract the military branch has awarded DT Research this year for the company’s DT311 ultra-rugged tablets, the company said Monday. DT311 is designed to capture and transfer information in real time and comply with military […] More

Esri has released a baseline set of three-dimensional mapped Ecological Marine Units for researchers to examine the ocean’s resources and detect ecological marine changes. The company said the Group on Earth Observations, a consortium of more than 100 nations with an Earth observation-related protocol, also commissioned a global map of EMUs with the goal to help preserve ocean resources and keep […] More

A satellite that Ball Aerospace built for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration marked five years in orbit on Oct. 28. Ball Aerospace partnered with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to design and develop the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite that works to provide three-dimensional humidity and temperature data to the Defense Department […] More

A Raytheon subsidiary has begun development work on a three-dimensional interface designed to help military personnel gain situational awareness while they are inside a  windowless armored ground vehicle. Raytheon BBN Technologies is developing the “human-machine” interface as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Ground X-Vehicle Technologies initiative, the company said Monday. The platform will employ lidar data and high-definition videos to generate […] More