Seerist has expanded its existing contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to include augmented analytics-based geographic information system data services. The company said Wednesday the additional support via GIS mapping software Esri will allow NGA to access real-time dashboards that could help policymakers, warfighters and crisis responders formulate insights and threat forecasts. “The NGA team […] More

Private technology company Dataminr seeks to drive the adoption of its product through the launch of its global partner ecosystem with several technology companies including Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Dataminr Partner Program is also aimed at integrating alerts into workflows more seamlessly through Dataminr’s artificial intelligence platform, the company said Thursday. Dataminr will […] More

Google’s government and education arm has named cloud and analytics executive Stephen Elliott as its head of artificial intelligence solutions. According to his LinkedIn profile, Elliott will collaborate with public sector customers in his new role to deliver cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, with a particular focus on leveraging the Palantir Foundry platform. Elliott began his […] More

Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure global at Microsoft, said the company has launched new Azure Space offerings and formed partnerships with Airbus, ST Engineering iDirect, Blackshark.ai, ESRI and Orbital Insight to deliver more cloud and space capabilities to customers worldwide. Keane wrote in a blog post published Thursday that one of new capabilities […] More

An industry team led by Raytheon Technologies will support a U.S. Army program that seeks to build a tactical ground station to help detect and monitor threats for long-range precision targeting operations. The Raytheon-led team for the service’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node program includes Algorithmia, C3.ai, Collins Aerospace, Curtiss-Wright’s defense solution division, Esri, General […] More

HawkEye 360 has generated $55 million from a Series C fundraising round, led by venture capital firm Night Dragon, to seed radio frequency sensing satellite development and deployment. The new capital, which brings HawkEye 360's total funds raised to more than $155 million, will be used to build nine additional satellites in three clusters for RF data collection and analytics work, the company said Monday.

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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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Woolpert has introduced a software service that will enable customers to store and manage access to their proprietary geospatial imagery data in a cloud environment.

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HawkEye 360 raised $70M in its Series B funding round to support the launch of four additional satellite clusters designed to handle the firm’s new radio frequency data analytics offerings slated for development in 2021.

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Dylan Thomas, who worked as a software engineer and project manager at Woolpert from 2004 to 2010, has rejoined the architecture, engineering and geospatial services provider as cloud practice leader. Thomas will oversee Woolpert’s Google Cloud product division and cloud strategy through the firm’s office in Denver, the company said Thursday.
 

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Oracle has unveiled a cloud-based application designed to help local and state government agencies facilitate land management and the processing of building permits and inspections. Oracle Public Sector Community Development is a subscription software-as-a-service app that works to upgrade the regulatory and compliance processes for building infrastructure and land use, the company said Thursday. “Today’s […] More

Leaders from the geospatial world have formed a council that would facilitate collaboration in the industry, particularly among companies and representative trade organizations. Jack Dangermond, president of Redlands, Calif.-based Esri, provider of geographic information system software, web geographic information systems and geodatabase management applications, will serve as the chairman and founder of the World Geospatial Industry […] More