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  • OGSystems Hires Former NGA Source Operations Director John Goolgasian - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems Hires Former NGA Source Operations Director John Goolgasian

    John Goolgasian, former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency source operations and management director, has joined OGSystems as the company aims to further its geospatial analytics offerings. Goolgasian, who was also director of the Foundation GEOINT Group in Source, will serve as an associate partner at OGSystems, the company said Tuesday. “John has had a stellar career with the government and has […] More

  • Engility to Continue Tactical Intell Gathering Support for Army; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Continue Tactical Intell Gathering Support for Army; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has secured a potential $24 million contract to support the U.S. Army‘s efforts to gather and provide global intelligence data to military commanders. The company said Wednesday it will continue to provide engineering services for the service branch’s Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Program under the recompete firm-fixed-price contract. “Our systems engineering knowledge, combined with insight into advanced […] More

  • MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Gets Follow-On Change Detection Tech Contract From NGA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Gets Follow-On Change Detection Tech Contract From NGA

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has secured a potential $11.6 million follow-on contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide a change detection system in support of NGA’s Foundation GEOINT. MDA said Monday it will continue to help the agency monitor the effects of climate change, identify facilities under construction and monitor urban sprawl, deforestation, wetlands loss and coastal expansion projects with the company’s Persistent […] More

  • Engility Names Optensity as Winner of GEOINT App Development Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Names Optensity as Winner of GEOINT App Development Challenge

    Engility has awarded a $25,000 prize to Optensity as the winner of the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program Grand Challenge 2016 for work on an application built to alert users on location-based threats and identifications of safe locations. Engility said Wednesday it worked with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to create the IGAPP challenge in an effort to connect commercial vendors with government agencies that are […] More

  • NGA Unveils Employee Exchange Program for Industry & Academia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Unveils Employee Exchange Program for Industry & Academia

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has launched an employee exchange initiative that will work to facilitate partnerships with industry and academia to share new technologies and methodologies. NGA said Tuesday the eNGAge program looks to send its middle management and senior executive employees to U.S. companies or universities in efforts to share geospatial knowledge and gain insights on business processes. Placements under eNGAge will […] More

  • US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Unveils New Certification Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Unveils New Certification Program

    The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation has introduced a new certification program for U.S. and international GEOINT professionals across industry, military, academia and government. USGIF officially unveiled the the Universal GEOINT Certification Program during the general session at its GEOINT 2016 Symposium, USGIF said Monday. The certification program requires three exams for applicants to obtain the GIS […] More

  • NGA Commences Geospatial Information Systems Fair to Exhibit Projects from High School Students - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Commences Geospatial Information Systems Fair to Exhibit Projects from High School Students

    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

  • HyTrust Adds Intelligence Community Vet Joanne Isham to Federal Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HyTrust Adds Intelligence Community Vet Joanne Isham to Federal Advisory Board

    Joanne Isham, an independent defense and intelligence consultant and former career officer with CIA, has joined the federal advisory board of HyTrust. The federal advisory board will work to help HyTrust build on its cloud and virtualization offerings to the public sector, the company said Monday. “We’re privileged to have Joanne join our federal advisory board […] More

  • Harris Corp. Gets DoD Award for Geospatial Data Business Mentorship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Corp. Gets DoD Award for Geospatial Data Business Mentorship

    Harris Corp. has been chosen for the Defense Department‘s Nunn-Perry Award in recognition of the company’s partnership with Spatial Data Integrations under the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s mentor-protege program. Harris said Wednesday it mentored the woman-owned company in geospatial content management, open source data collection and quality control strategies. North Carolina Central University is also part of the mentor-protege team and has […] More

  • NGA Eyes Cloud Transition Contract Award to Ball Aerospace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Eyes Cloud Transition Contract Award to Ball Aerospace

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to award Ball Aerospace & Technologies a one-year, sole-source contract to provide design and development support for NGA’s Accelerated Cloud Transition program. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday the contract covers data tagging support for the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise’s GovCloud platform and commercial cloud services. Contract […] More

  • AFEI Presents Enterprise Information Awards; Booz Allen's Greg Wenzel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AFEI Presents Enterprise Information Awards; Booz Allen’s Greg Wenzel Comments

    The Association for Enterprise Information has given the 2015 Excellence in Enterprise Information Awards to the National Nuclear Security Administration, Institute for Defense Analyses and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The awards are for NNSA’s G2 Enterprise Information Management System, IDA’s Automated Information Triage for Rapid Decision Making project with the Defense Department and NGA’s Agency […] More

  • Octo Consulting to Operate, Maintain NGA Web Presence; Mehul Sanghani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting to Operate, Maintain NGA Web Presence; Mehul Sanghani Comments

    Octo Consulting Group has received a five-year, $34 million contract to provide operations, software engineering and support services for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s Agile Web Presence program. The company will develop NGA’s internal and external Internet services and various unclassified and classified networks under the AWP program, Octo said Dec. 1. NGA’s information technology directorate awarded the […] More