Carahsoft Technology has agreed to serve as a value-added reseller of CompassCom Software’s fleet management platforms to the public sector through Carahsoft’s spot on the General Services Administration’s Schedule 70 contract vehicle. Carahsoft said Friday it will offer CompassCom’s Geographic Information System, Global Navigation Satellite System, Mobile Resource Management tool and other wireless platforms to federal customers under […] More

DigitalGlobe has launched a new web-based subscription service for international defense and intelligence customers to access the satellite operator’s library of more than 2.7 billion square miles of imagery. SecureWatch is designed to combine multisource geospatial intelligence content such as satellite imagery with different refresh intervals and resolutions, geographic information system layers, news stories and social media […] More

Research and Markets has released a new report that predicts the public safety and security market will reach $456.56 billion by 2021 from $247.53 billion in 2016, or a compound annual growth rate of 13 percent. The report cites the rise in criminal activities, natural disaster and cross border terrorism, public safety policies and regulations […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has launched its Geospatial Information Systems fair in support of NGA’s Partners in Education program to provide more than 100 high school students a means to exhibit their GIS projects. NGA employees examined the projects of young geospatial inventors and provided purpose, design, methodology, execution and creativity feedback to assist the participants’ final works, the […] More

CyberTech Systems and Software has rolled out a cloud-based public safety technology that works to help law enforcement agencies detect and investigate criminal activities. GeoShield C3 is powered by Microsoft‘s Azure Government platform and designed to comply with  transparency and incident response policies set forth by the FBI‘s criminal justice information services division, CyberTech said Nov. 10. Vince […] More

MarketsandMarkets has reported that worldwide governmental efforts to keep citizens, infrastructure and organizations safe from multiple threats drive growth in the public safety and security market. The market’s value to grow from almost $221 billion this year to about $371 billion by 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of 10.9 percent over the five-year period, […] More

An Airbus Defense and Space company has refreshed its call processing system offerings in a move to aid communities in public safety communications. Airbus DS Communications launched the VESTA SMS Text-to-911 platform, VESTA Map service and VESTA Analytics updates, Airbus said Monday. “I am particularly excited to announce our new SMS offering which places text-to-911 capability inside our VESTA […] More

IBM plans to release a new cloud-based open platform in an effort to help developers and clients build enterprise applications for managing data from connected devices. The company said Tuesday it will also add Internet of Things services to the firm’s Bluemix platform-as-a-service offering to facilitate the integration of IoT information into cloud computing apps. […] More

Makers of the Urban Observatory interactive exhibit, a project to demonstrate how large amounts of data could be turned into useful information, will unveil the next version of the initiative in San Diego next week. The exhibit underwent an overhaul by inputting data from close to 60 cities this year from the 10 metropolitan areas featured during its launch year, […] More

Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has named 17 new and continuing members of a committee that provides the Federal Geographic Data Committee with recommendations on geospatial policy and management issues. The recent appointment brings the total members of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee to 30, each will serve three-year terms, the department announced […] More

Sean McCarron will serve as vice president of sales at Smartronix and will lead the company’s sales and business development efforts in the commercial cloud computing market. He was most recently the business development manager at Amazon Web Services, Smartronix announced Tuesday. Before AWS, the 14-year industry veteran held positions at Microsoft and Esri. On his […] More