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  • 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

  • Former NGA Head Letitia Long to Chair INSA Board; John Negroponte Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former NGA Head Letitia Long to Chair INSA Board; John Negroponte Comments

    Letitia Long, a former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, has been appointed chairperson of the board of directors at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. INSA said Tuesday Long will succeed John Negroponte, who will move to the role of chairman emeritus of INSA on Jan. 1, 2016 and be responsible for the alliance’s strategic direction. […] More

  • DigitalGlobe: Budget, Innovation Framework Key for Govt-Industry Satellite Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe: Budget, Innovation Framework Key for Govt-Industry Satellite Partnerships

    DigitalGlobe has said it believes the U.S. government should develop innovation and budget management strategies to ensure continued partnership between commercial satellite services providers and their public-sector customers. In a blog article published Tuesday, the company cited the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s EnhancedView program as one example of how industry can help address the earth imagery needs of defense and intelligence […] More

  • NGA Seeks Info on Tools for Insider Threat Detection in Virtual Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Seeks Info on Tools for Insider Threat Detection in Virtual Infrastructure

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has asked industry to provide information on platforms built to detect insider threats in virtual network environments. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Oct. 13 that it is in search for tools intended to log data on the actions that users and network administrators perform in its virtual infrastructure as well […] More

  • Engility Helps Vricon Launch GEOINT App Through NGA Program; Tony Smeraglinolo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Helps Vricon Launch GEOINT App Through NGA Program; Tony Smeraglinolo Comments

    The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Engility have announced the availability of a Vricon-made application designed to help government users access satellite imagery-derived three-dimensional content. Engility said Monday that Vricon’s Explorer tool is now available on the agency’s GEOINT app store. TASC, a subsidiary of Engility, served as a broker between Vricon and NGA through […] More

  • NGA Renews EnhancedView Imagery Agreement With DigitalGlobe - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Renews EnhancedView Imagery Agreement With DigitalGlobe

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will extend its usage of DigitalGlobe’s satellite imagery service for at least another year. NGA renewed DigitalGlobe’s Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery platform on Sept. 1 under the EnhancedView contract, DigitalGlobe said Thursday. The Global EGD platform is designed to provide NGA and other government users with at least 6 billion square kilometers […] More

  • Rob Zitz on Leidos' Offerings, Public-Private Sector Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rob Zitz on Leidos’ Offerings, Public-Private Sector Collaboration

    Rob Zitz, a 33-year intelligence community veteran, joined Leidos in August 2011 — when it was known as Science Applications International Corp. — and serves as senior vice president and chief systems architect for the company’s national security sector. Zitz has held key leadership positions within Army Intelligence, CIA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Department of Homelan Security, Secret Service […] More