Big Data & Analytics News

Orbital Insight has raised $20 million in total funds for the development of algorithms that work to analyze satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle-based imagery in order to generate data-driven insights for use in decision making. The Palo Alto, California-based company secured $15 million in a GV-led funding round and another $5 million through a development […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded Charles River Analytics with a potential one-year, $1 million contract to develop a decision support tool for the Contamination and Lasting Effects Analysis for Negative Substance and Elements effort. Charles River Analytics said Wednesday that the decision support tool will work to support the enhancement of the military testing and training facilities’ […] More

San Ramon, California-based cloud-based productivity and civic engagement provider Accela has introduced a new online and in-person modern payment platform for government agencies, the company announced June 21. Maury Blackman, Accela president and CEO, wrote in a blog post that CivicPay is designed to communicate and understand government demand and address potential gaps in the market such as Civic Platform strategy integration. Blackman […] More

Wynyard Group will provide its Advanced Crime Analytics and Investigations Case Management systems for the Georgia Department of Corrections to support its investigations and intelligence teams. The crime deterrence and security software provider said Wednesday its ACA and ICM platforms will aid GDC’s investigations and intelligence teams as they analyze and investigate incidents and crimes in 32 facilities with 36,000 […] More

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded Data Computer Corporation of America a five-year, $13.8 million contract for business intelligence services in support of a CMS plan to update and expand the agency’s automated plan payment system. DCCA said Monday that it will analyze interfaces for CMS and aim to help the agency fulfill data analytics requirements […] More

C3 IoT has received a potential $25 million contract provide a suite of enterprise Internet-of-Things software applications and machine learning technology for the State Department to monitor and analyze energy management at department-run facilities globally. The company said Monday its platforms will also work to help the State Department predict looming equipment failure and track the health of sensors and device infrastructure throughout its more than 22,000 […] More

In-Q-Tel has signed a strategic investment and partnership agreement with Databricks in a push to help the San Francisco, California-based technology firm deploy an open-source big data processing engine to U.S. intelligence agencies. IQT said Tuesday Databricks’ Apache Spark platform is powered by cloud technology and designed for enterprise users to analyze huge amounts of data, integrate disparate information silos and gain insights […] More

Battelle has updated its analytics software that works to help hospital networks track and analyze clinical quality metrics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Version 2.2. of the WayFinder QI Dashboard is designed for administrators to assess within-hospital readmissions and monitor their facilities’ performance on the Center for Disease Control‘s National Healthcare Safety Network, Battelle said […] More

Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel has made an investment in Interset to help the cybersecurity company further develop its user behavior analytics technology. Interset designed its platform to help organizations uncover insider threats and compromised accounts as well as minimize fall-positive security alerts, the company said Thursday. “U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement communities have long sought to protect critical data with […] More

SOS International’s subsidiary Exovera will develop a social media analytics tool for the U.S. embassy in Iraq under a three-year contract with the State Department. Exovera’s news desk and customer support center will work to track and analyze traditional and social media and provide analytical products to the embassy, SOSi said Wednesday. Jeremy Davis, Exovera president, said the company’s […] More

Ephesoft and In-Q-Tel have formed a strategic alliance to offer a document analysis platform to the U.S. intelligence community. IQT invested in Ephesoft for the deployment of Ephesoft Universe, which is designed to help organizations utilize unstructured data using the open source Apache Spark data loading technology and Hadoop to cluster multiple PCs, Ephesoft said Tuesday. George Hoyem, an investments partner at […] More