NJVC Leading NGA Cloud Demo Team; Kevin Jackson Comments
NJVC will lead a team comprising of three other companies to demonstrate community cloud computing environments for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency over the course of this year. Boeing will develop offerings via its OpenGeo software, The Aerospace Corp. will contribute an OpenStack-based cloud and a virtual organization management system and Open Geospatial Consortium will provide [...]
An ITT Exelis subsidiary has released a new platform intended to help organizations create, publish and deploy image analytics as web-based services. Exelis Visual Information Solutions developed ENVI Services Engine for government agencies as they adopt cloud computing and take in large amounts of geospatial data, Exelis said Monday. Users on a cloud or enterprise framework [...]
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TeleCommunications Systems Inc. has developed a new system for citizens to send emergency information to 911 operators via text messages when audio communication is not available. TCS said it developed the system to work with voice communication systems and to fulfill proposed Federal Communications Commission requirements for mobile carriers and some Internet-based text messaging applications [...]
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SAIC Geospatial Data Software Designed for Google Earth; John Thomas Comments
November 8, 2012 1 CommentScience Applications International Corp. has released a new commercial software application for creating and editing geographic information systems data in Google Earth, the company announced Thursday. According to the company, GRGlobe visualizes spatial data by structuring it into layers and overlaying the feature data on a Google Earth globe. The program structures data for GIS [...]
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Tactical Technologies Office has selected ATK to support its Phoenix Technologies Program, the firm announced Wednesday. PTP is an initiative which aims to reuse components from retired or damaged satellites in the geosynchronous orbit. Through the award ATK will modify an existing geostationary bus for the Phoenix mission. ATK [...]
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