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  • Vencore Lands $980M NGA Analytical, Technical Support IDIQ Spot; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Lands $980M NGA Analytical, Technical Support IDIQ Spot; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore has secured a prime position on a potential five-year, $980 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide technical support services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The company said Tuesday it will help NGA integrate analytics services and GEOINT sources to track and build up collection strategies as well as simulation and modeling operations under the multiple-award contract for […] More

  • Carahsoft to Resell CompassData's Geospatial Data Products to Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Resell CompassData’s Geospatial Data Products to Public Sector

     Carahsoft Technology has agreed to be a value-added reseller of CompassData‘s data products for avionics, photogrammetry and remote sensing applications to government agencies. CompassData said Wednesday its geospatial data products will be available on Carahsoft’s General Services Administration Schedule and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement governmentwide acquisition contract vehicles. “With the addition of CompassData to Carahsoft’s Geospatial portfolio, […] More

  • Boundless Secures NGA GEOINT Support Contract; Andy Dearing Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boundless Secures NGA GEOINT Support Contract; Andy Dearing Comments

    Boundless has received a $36 million contract to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s GEOINT services. The company said Tuesday it will also help package, deliver, maintain and patch accredited open source geospatial software packages under the contract. “So many organizations are quickly realizing the power and flexibility of open source,” said Boundless CEO Andy Dearing. Dearing added […] More

  • NGA Seeks Proposals for GEOINT BAA’s Aerial Synthetic Aperture Radar Topic Area - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Seeks Proposals for GEOINT BAA’s Aerial Synthetic Aperture Radar Topic Area

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has begun to seek proposals for platforms designed to enhance image processing methods that are used with aerial synthetic aperture radar. NGA said Wednesday the solicitation falls under the fifth topic of a three-year broad agency announcement for the agency’s Boosting Innovative GEOINT program. The agency aims to build up image processes through the […] More

  • NGA Taps Esri to Join Geospatial Exchange Program; Jack Dangermond Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Taps Esri to Join Geospatial Exchange Program; Jack Dangermond Comments

    Esri has been chosen to participate in a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency program that will place NGA employees in temporary positions with academic and industry partners as part of efforts to increase their exposure to new technologies and methodologies. The company said Thursday the eNGAge program seeks to foster experiential learning opportunities that may help professionals expand their current capacities. NGA employees who collaborate with […] More

  • Ball Aerospace, Spire Partner to Help NGA Develop Arctic Maritime Traffic Monitoring Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace, Spire Partner to Help NGA Develop Arctic Maritime Traffic Monitoring Platform

    Ball Aerospace and Spire Global will collaborate to support a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency project that seeks to increase maritime domain awareness in the Arctic region through the use of technology. Both companies aim to develop a data collection and analysis platform that will work to help the agency monitor the activity of vessels that travel in Arctic waters, Ball […] More

  • CTC to Explore AI Automation Tools Under NGA Contract; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC to Explore AI Automation Tools Under NGA Contract; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has won a $498,000 contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to research artificial intelligence-based automation technologies. CTC said Wednesday it aims to develop an AI Analyst Virtual Assistant platform that would process large quantities of information through NGA’s Boosting Innovative GEOINT initiative. Ed Sheehan, CTC president and CEO, said the contract gives CTC an opportunity to “contribute to a […] More

  • NGA Unveils Arctic Region’s New Digital Elevation Models at Esri Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Unveils Arctic Region’s New Digital Elevation Models at Esri Conference

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency unveiled a new collection of digital elevation models of the Arctic at Esri’s two-day Federal GIS conference that kicked off Monday in Washington. NGA presented the new collection as part of the ArcticDEM project – a public-private partnership between NGA, Esri and the Polar Geospatial Center that seeks to generate high-resolution […] More

  • NGA Taps 4 Firms to Develop AI, Automation Platforms for GEOINT Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Taps 4 Firms to Develop AI, Automation Platforms for GEOINT Analysis

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded nearly $2 million in research contracts to four companies that seek to facilitate GEOINT analysis through the development of automation and artificial intelligence technology platforms. NGA said Wednesday it awarded the contracts to Raytheon, Concurrent Technologies Corp., HRL Laboratories and Soar Technology in January under the AI and automation topic of a […] More

  • UltiSat Awarded DISA Task Order to Support NGA Deployable Comm Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UltiSat Awarded DISA Task Order to Support NGA Deployable Comm Systems

    UltiSat has received a task order from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide Ku-band bandwidth capacity to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s deployable communications systems. The company said Friday it will offer Ku-band bandwidth and backhaul services in both continental and outside continental U.S. to support NDCS GEOINT operations around the world. The commercial satellite communications […] More

  • Stellar Science to Develop Laser Modeling, Simulation Platforms for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stellar Science to Develop Laser Modeling, Simulation Platforms for Air Force

    Stellar Science has won a five-year, $7.03 million contract to develop advanced laser system modeling and simulation units for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Friday the Air Force received five proposals for the cost-reimbursement contract and obligated $150,000 in fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of award. Work will […] More

  • Prescient Debuts Traveler Safety Tool in NGA's App Store - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Prescient Debuts Traveler Safety Tool in NGA’s App Store

    Prescient has released its mobile application for traveler safety on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s GEOINT app store. The company said Wednesday Defense Department and Intelligence Community personnel with common access cards can now download the Prescient Traveler app directly to approved mobile devices for free use across the globe. Prescient Traveler offers cultural information and visuals for more than 650 […] More