Big Data & Analytics News

The Transportation Department has issued a request for information on potential industry sources of technology platforms that can work to integrate, analyze and visualize safety-related data on multimodal surface transportation. DOT said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday it will collect public comments in an effort to determine whether and how to advance data systems and analysis the department needs to […] More

NASA looks to partner with cloud computing and big date companies firms to discover, access and utilize huge amounts of Earth science data. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday, NASA seeks partnership plans from private entities that are willing to enter into an agreement to help the space agency manage archive under the Earth Science Data […] More

Dewberry and Civis Analytics have collaborated on a data collection and analysis initiative to assess Hurricane Harvey’s impacts to Houston and support recovery efforts in the city. “The Harvey hindcast analysis conducted by Dewberry and Civis Analytics showed that there were an additional 130K Houstonians who were not counted in the original assessments, especially in […] More

Amazon Web Services has sponsored a hackathon event in Washington, D.C., that challenged 16 teams to demonstrate the impacts of diplomatic activities using participants’ data visualization skills. AWS announced Thursday it provided technology, credits, expertise and system architects to the 24-hour ImpactHack event jointly hosted by the State Department‘s U.S. Diplomacy Center and the World Resources Institute. The winning […] More

Nlyte Software has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its cognitive data center infrastructure management platform. Nlyte Machine Learning leverages the artificial intelligence capabilities of the IBM Watson IoT platform to help agencies meet the federal government’s security requirements and comply with the Data Center Optimization Initiative, Nlyte said Thursday. “With this […] More

The National Ignition Facility has implemented Splunk software platforms to manage and analyze information technology systems used to secure the country’s nuclear stockpile. Splunk said Wednesday its Enterprise and IT Service Intelligence systems run on NIF’s Computer Control System built to monitor more than 66K control points across the laser facility. Enterprise works to help the facility’s personnel collect information from […] More

Maxar Technologies‘ DigitalGlobe business has secured a $3.2M contract from the the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build a technology platform for military and intelligence agencies to access unclassified geospatial data. The Geospatial Cloud Analytics Hub platform is intended to help users obtain insights and make decisions with cloud-based machine learning, Maxar said Monday. DigitalGlobe will […] More

BAE Systems has been selected to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency increase availability of commercial geospatial data and community-sourced information under three contracts worth up to $1.52B. NGA down-selected only two contractors to vie for task orders to support the agency’s Janus Geomatics Precise Imagery, Janus Geography and Janus Geomatics Elevation programs, BAE said Wednesday. The company plans to […] More

A Perspecta subsidiary and McKing Consulting have won positions on a potential five-year, $48M contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to perform geospatial research, analysis and services. CDC awarded $40M to Perspecta’s enterprise services team and another $8M to McKing through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. Tasks under GRASP will include science, analysis, […] More